Lexic.us

Definition of Cypress spurge

1. Noun. Old World perennial having foliage resembling cypress; naturalized as a weed in the United States.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cypress Spurge

Literary usage of Cypress spurge

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Old Time Gardens, Newly Set Forth by Alice Morse Earle (1902)
"There has ever been much uncanny suggestion in the cypress spurge. I never should have picked it had I found it in trim gardens; but I saw it only in ..."

2. Annual Report by Ohio State Board of Agriculture (1910)
"Its seeds ripen in the North. Wild Mustard, Charlock—Produces so many seeds which lie in the ground and get into oats, etc. cypress spurge—Has ..."

3. Nantucket Wild Flowers by Alice Owen Albertson (1921)
"The cypress spurge was everywhere and called 'La plume de Napoleon!' When I came home I told Mrs. Owen. She immediately said, 'Then the name here must be a ..."

4. A Practical Course in Botany: With Especial Reference to Its Bearings on by Eliza Frances Andrews (1911)
"E. Cyparissias, cypress spurge. Stems densely clustered, from running rootstocks, reaching 3 dm. in height, crowded with linear, entire leaves; ..."

5. A Spring Flora for High Schools by Henry Chandler Cowles, John Gaylord Coulter (1915)
"E. Cyparissias, cypress spurge. Stems densely clustered, from running rootstocks, reaching 3 dm. in height, crowded with linear, entire leaves; ..."

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