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devil's milk Herb.
[tr. by Lyte of Ger. Teufelsmilch, Du. Duyvels melck.]
A name given to plants with acrid milky juice. a. The Sun-Spurge (Euphorbia Helioscopia) and Petty Spurge (E. Peplus).
1578Lyte Dodoens iii. xxxii. 363 We may cal it after the Greke Peplos, or following the Douche, Dyuels milke. 1611Florio, Pepilio, Wilde-purcelaine, some take it for Diuelsmilke or Pety-spurge. 1783Ainsworth Lat. Dict. (Morell) i, Devil's milk (herb), Tithymallus. 1878Britten & Holl. Plant-n., Devil's milk..Euphorbia Helioscopia. Middlesex.
b. The Celandine, Chelidonium majus.
1878Britten & Holland Plant-n. (Yorkshire.) |