noun
Old World perennial having foliage resembling cypress; naturalized as a weed in the United States
• Syn: ↑Euphorbia cyparissias
• Hypernyms: ↑spurge
• Member Holonyms: ↑Euphorbia, ↑genus Euphorbia
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noun : a spurge (Euphorbia cyparissias) with foliage resembling that of a cypress that is native to the Old World but is now established as a weed in the eastern United States
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a perennial herb, Euphorbia cyparissias, of Eurasia, having small, greenish-yellow flowers in dense clusters.
[1700-10]
Useful english dictionary. 2012.