Spurges is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.
You can make 144 anagrams from letters in spurges (egprssu).
1350-1400; Middle English Middle French espurge, noun derivative of espurgier to cleanse Latin expurgāre. See ex-1, purge
This caterpillar is almost always found on the Cyprus-leafed spurge.
The flowers begin to greet you, the heliotrope, solanaceas, spurge and cacti all around.
The spurge is poisonous to man; but the caterpillar finds it a wholesome nourishment.
Bitter as spurge was that old story of hers now, and bitterer still the only moral lesson it now appeared to her to have.
The spurge plants were long ago covered up by drifting sand, and the caterpillars were all destroyed.
Cleg pushed his way through the thickly matted copses of spurge laurel and wet-shot alder.
Such is the case with the natural order Euphorbiaceæ, or spurge family, to which the tallow-tree of China belongs.
Thus the spurge, that is noxious to man, is a most wholesome nourishment to the Caterpillar.
Well; do not open my eyes with pincers, nor compose for them a collyrium of spurge.
There are caterpillars which eat the leaves of the Euphorbia, or spurge, for instance.