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(spûrj) noun
1. Any of several shrubs (genus Euphorbia) having fertile flowers with 3–lobed ovaries on long pedicels and yielding a milky juice of bitter taste.
2. One of various related plants of the spurge family (Euphorbiaceae). [<OF espurge <espurgier purge <L expurgare <ex- out + purgare cleanse]
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