hairy spurge

1. 1.

   much-branched hirsute weed native to northeastern North America

   SynonymsEuphorbia hirsuta

   Broaderspurge

   Part ofEuphorbia

Questions about hairy spurge

What does hairy spurge mean?

hairy spurge means "much-branched hirsute weed native to northeastern North America".

What is another word for hairy spurge?

Close synonyms include Euphorbia hirsuta. 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 hairy spurge a common word?

hairy spurge is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.