spurge.
(Of thelat.)euphorbium, and this of theGr. and? f?ß???).
1. m. plant African family of the Euforbiáceas, with a stem fleshy of more than one meter in height, angular, with spines geminate, conical and very hard, without leaves, and which, under pressure, he takes a very pungent juice, that dries gives a resinous substance used in medicine as purgative.
