devil's milk

Questions about devil's milk

What does devil's milk mean?

devil's milk means "an Old World spurge introduced as a weed in the eastern United States". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for devil's milk?

Close synonyms include petty spurge, Euphorbia peplus, sun spurge, wartweed, wartwort. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is devil's milk a common word?

devil's milk is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.