Word Meanings - TITHYMAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Any kind of spurge, esp. Euphorbia Cyparissias.

Related words: (words related to TITHYMAL)

• SPURGE
  To emit foam; to froth; -- said of the emission of yeast from beer in course of fermentation. W. Cartright.
• EUPHORBIACEOUS; EUPHORBIAL
  Of, relating to, or resembling, the Euphorbia family.
• SPURGEWORT
  Any euphorbiaceous plant. Lindley.
• EUPHORBIA
  Spurge, or bastard spurge, a genus of plants of many species, mostly shrubby, herbaceous succulents, affording an acrid, milky juice. Some of them are armed with thorns. Most of them yield powerful emetic and cathartic products.