# spurge
## English
### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /spɜːdʒ/
* (General American) IPA: /spɜɹdʒ/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
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* Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dʒ

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle English spurge, from Old French espurge, from espurgier (“to purge”), from Latin expurgo (“I purge”); the bitter milky sap of these plants was formerly used as a purgative.

#### Noun

spurge (usually uncountable, plural spurges)
* Any plant of the genus Euphorbia, a diverse genus of over 2,000 species.
** 1855, Robert Browning, Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came, section X:But cockle, spurge, according to their law / Might propagate their kind, with none to awe, / You'd think; a burr had been a treasure trove.
* Any plant of the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae.
    Synonym: euphorbia
* A plant resembling those in genus Euphorbia in some aspect of its appearance.

##### Hypernyms

* malvid, fabid, rosid, eudicot, angiosperm, tracheophyte, plant

##### Hyponyms

* African milk barrel (Euphorbia horrida)
* African milk tree, cathedral cactus (Euphorbia trigona)
* asthma-plant (Euphorbia hirta)
* baseball plant (Euphorbia obesa)
* candelabra tree
* candelilla (Euphorbia antisyphilitica)
* caper spurge, gopher spurge, paper spurge (Euphorbia lathyris)
* cliff spurge, coast spurge (Euphorbia misera)
* crown of thorns, Christ plant (Euphorbia milii)
* cushion spurge (Euphorbia epithymoides)
* cypress spurge (Euphorbia cyparissias)
* devil's backbone, redbird cactus (Euphorbia tithymaloides)
* dwarf poinsettia, fire-on-the-mountain, wild poinsettia (Euphorbia cyathophora)
* glade spurge, purple spurge (Euphorbia purpurea)
* gopher spurge, upright myrtle spurge (Euphorbia rigida)
* Gregersen's spurge (Euphorbia gregersenii)
* Griffith's spurge (Euphorbia griffithii)
* leafy spurge, green spurge (Euphorbia esula)
* Indian spurge tree (Euphorbia neriifolia)
* Indian tree spurge, milk bush (Euphorbia tirucalli)
* leafless milk hedge (Euphorbia caducifolia)
* leafy milk hedge (Euphorbia nivulia)
* Madagascar jewel (Euphorbia leuconeura)
* Mediterranean spurge (Euphorbia characias)
* Medusa's head (Euphorbia caput-medusae)
* milk bush (Euphorbia tirucalli)
* mottled spurge, frilled fan, elkhorn (Euphorbia lactea)
* myrtle spurge, creeping spurge (Euphorbia myrsinites)
* painted spurge, painted euphorbia, Mexican fireplant (Euphorbia heterophylla)
* petty spurge (Euphorbia peplus)
* Peking spurge (Euphorbia pekinensis)
* pencil tree (Euphorbia tirucalli)
* poinsettia, painted leaf (Euphorbia pulcherrima)
* purple spurge (Euphorbia peplis)
* rattlesnake weed, white-margined sandmat (Euphorbia albomarginata)
* red spurge (Euphorbia cotinifolia)
* resin spurge (Euphorbia resinifera)
* sand spurge (Euphorbia psammogeton)
* scarlet plume (Euphorbia fulgens)
* sea spurge (Euphorbia paralias)
* serrated spurge, sawtooth spurge (Euphorbia serrata)
* spotted spurge, prostrate spurge (Euphorbia maculata)
* sun spurge (Euphorbia helioscopia)
* tree spurge (Euphorbia dendroides)
* variegated spurge, white-margined spurge, snow-on-the-mountain, smoke-on-the-prairie (Euphorbia marginata)
* wood spurge (Euphorbia amygdaloides)

##### Derived terms

* balsam spurge
* Allegheny spurge, Allegheny mountain spurge (Pachysandra procumbens)
* broom spurge (Amperea xiphoclada)
* caper spurge (Euphorbia lathyris)
* cliff spurge (Euphorbia misera)
* coast spurge} (Euphorbia misera)
* creeping spurge (Euphorbia myrsinites)
* cushion spurge (Euphorbia epithymoides)
* cypress spurge (Euphorbia cyparissias)
* dwarf spurge (Euphorbia exigua)
* flowering spurge (Euphorbia corollata)
* glade spurge (Euphorbia purpurea)
* gopher spurge (Euphorbia lathyris, Euphorbia rigida)
* graveyard spurge (Euphorbia cyparissias)
* green spurge (Euphorbia esula)
* Gregersen's spurge (Euphorbia gregersenii)
* Griffith's spurge (Euphorbia griffithii)
* hairy spurge (Euphorbia hirsuta)
* Hall's shrubby spurge (Tetracoccus hallii))
* Indian spurge tree (Euphorbia neriifolia)
* Indian tree spurge (Euphorbia tirucalli)
* ipecac spurge (Euphorbia ipecacuanhae)
* Japanese spurge (Pachysandra terminalis)
* knotweed spurge (Euphorbia polygonifolia)
* leaf spurge, leafy spurge (Euphorbia esula)
* Mediterranean spurge (Euphorbia characias)
* mottled spurge (Euphorbia lactea)
* myrtle spurge (Euphorbia myrsinites, Euphorbia lathyris)
* nettlespurge (Jatropha spp.)
* painted spurge (Euphorbia heterophylla)
* paper spurge (Euphorbia lathyris)
* Peking spurge (Euphorbia pekinensis)
* petty spurge (Euphorbia peplus)
* pill-bearing spurge (Euphorbia pilulifera)
* prairie spurge (Chamaesyce nuttallii)
* prostrate spurge (Euphorbia maculata)
* purple spurge (Euphorbia purpurea)
* red spurge Euphorbia cotinifolia)
* resin spurge (Euphorbia resinifera)
* sand spurge (Euphorbia psammogeton)
* sawtooth spurge (Euphorbia serrata)
* seaside spurge (Euphorbia polygonifolia)
* sea spurge (Euphorbia paralias)
* serrated spurge (Euphorbia serrata)
* shore spurge (Euphorbia polygonifolia)
* silver spurge (Euphorbia rigida)
* slipper spurge (Euphorbia tithymaloides)
* spotted spurge (Euphorbia maculata)
* spurge daphne (Daphne laureola)
* spurge flax (Thymelaea passerina)
* spurge hawk-moth (Hyles euphorbiae)
* spurge laurel (Daphne laureola)
* spurge nettle (Cnidoscolus stimulosus)
* spurge olive (Thymelaea passerina, Cneorum tricoccon)
* stubble spurge (Euphorbia maculata)
* sun spurge (Euphorbia helioscopia)
* toothed spurge (Euphorbia dentata)
* tramp's spurge (Euphorbia corollata)
* tree spurge (Euphorbia dendroides)
* upright myrtle spurge (Euphorbia rigida)
* variegated spurge (Euphorbia marginata)
* wart spurge (Euphorbia helioscopia)
* white-margined spurge (Euphorbia marginata)
* wild spurge (Euphorbia corollata)
* wood spurge (Euphorbia amygdaloides)

##### Translations
#### References

* spurge on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* Euphorbia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
* Category:Euphorbia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
* “*spurge*”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

### Etymology 2

Uncertain, but likely closely related to etymology 1, thus a doublet of purge.

#### Verb

spurge (third-person singular simple present spurges, present participle spurging, simple past and past participle spurged)
* (intransitive) To emit foam; to froth; said of the emission of yeast from beer during fermentation.
** 1661, W. Cartwright, Siedge:The body's somthing noysome: 'tis a stale one; / Good troth it spurgeth very monstrously.

##### Translations
### Anagrams

* Grupes, Super G, purges, super G

## Middle English
### Alternative forms

* sporge, spourge, spowrge

### Etymology

Borrowed from Old French espurge, from espurgier, from Latin expurgo. Compare purgen.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈspurd͡ʒ(ə)/

### Noun

spurge (uncountable)
* spurge

#### Descendants

* English: spurge

#### References

* “spurǧe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.