| 单词 | spurge |
| 例句 | The charred walls were hardly visible, camouflaged as they were by the spurge, brambles, and wild thyme that had taken root among the soot-blackened stones. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z No princes had lived in those wretched hovels, no red-robed bishops, only farmers and laborers whose stories no one had written down, and now they were lost, buried under wild thyme and fast-growing spurge. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Although I am completely enamored of it, I am not talking about that kind of spurge here. 10 healthful foods worth the premium price tag 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z A couple of cross members on the arbor have broken, planks that retain beds have decayed and paths meticulously weeded just a month ago are full of nutsedge and prostrate spurge again. Surveying the garden after a soggy summer 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z In shade gardens, the floor layer would consist of such woodland beauties as foamflower, trilliums, gingers and Allegheny spurge. Why manicured lawns should become a thing of the past 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z This provides the perfect opportunity for invading lawn weeds, such as dandelions, crabgrass, chickweed, Virginia buttonweed, and spurge, that don’t mind being scalped. 15 Really Dumb Gardening Mistakes 2010-03-18T00:06:00Z This goes for vines such as porcelain berry or bindweed, or just opportunistic ground dwellers such as yellow nutsedge, wiregrass, plantains and prostrate spurge. Looking back at a hot, soggy mess of a growing season 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z Demand for luxury goods has soared after lockdowns as customers spurge on high-end goods. Renaissance meets grunge as London Fashion Week kicks off 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z They eat the seeds and live under the plants, so if you get rid of the spurge, you may reduce your ant problems too. Why vinegar might be your secret weapon to fighting weeds 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z Towns answered with a 3-pointer and made 5 of 6 free throws as the Purple Eagles closed on a 15-8 spurge. Niagara wins season-opener, beats St. Bonaventure 80-72 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z Many botanists now consider Utah’s spurge infestation a crisis, but they have few resources to combat its advance. ‘Waterwise’ ornamental plant taking over Wasatch foothills 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z Among the targets: a genus of arachnids known as “goblin spiders,” a group of shrubs called “spurges” and, of course, the class Cestoda, better known as tapeworms. Tapeworms are brainless, spineless, gutless parasites — and this scientist loves them 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z Casting aside the holiday glow, the poinsettia is nothing but a fancy spurge with a very descriptive scientific name. Invasion of the Holiday Houseplant 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z The August profit growth marked the fastest pace in three years, helped by Beijing's spurge on infrastructure projects and a booming real estate industry. China September industrial profit growth slows, signals fragile recovery 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z And in the works on the roof of the security center overlooking the memorial is the elevated public Liberty Park, nearing completion with a Living Wall installation of periwinkle, Japanese spurge and Baltic ivy. World Trade Center's newest $2.5bn skyscraper soars to full 80 stories 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z That’s what the Royal Horticultural Society opined when it gave myrtle spurge an Award of Garden Merit several years ago. ‘Waterwise’ ornamental plant taking over Wasatch foothills 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z And in the works on the roof of the security center overlooking the memorial is the elevated public Liberty Park, nearing completion with a "Living Wall" installation of periwinkle, Japanese spurge, and Baltic ivy. World Trade Center skyscrapers: 3 up, 1 to go 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z Leafy spurge is one of North Dakota’s most problematic weeds. 4 field days set for leafy spurge-eating flea beetles 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z Grazing goats owned by a Bassett rancher also were key players in the initial clearing of unwanted vegetation because of their appetites for small willows, dogwood, red cedar and leafy spurge. Jeffrey Island restoration has been a years-long process 2016-04-16T04:00:00Z "Caper spurge," said Harry, looking at it carelessly. Strange Stories 2012-01-16T03:00:05.067Z Traits that make myrtle spurge resilient - coupled with a total absence of organisms that prey on it - have turned the plant into an invasive disaster, according to the Utah Native Plant Society’s Tony Frates. ‘Waterwise’ ornamental plant taking over Wasatch foothills 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z But as a reward for our endeavors, we found the lobelia cardinalis in wonderful profusion, mingled in striking contrast of color with the iron and sneeze weeds, and the common spurge. Historic Waterways?Six Hundred Miles of Canoeing Down the Rock, Fox, and Wisconsin Rivers 2012-01-13T03:00:14.813Z Manihot, man′i-hot, n. a genus of tropical American, mainly Brazilian, herbs of the spurge family—two species yielding the bitter and the sweet cassava respectively. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z The fellow was lying asleep there, and he having bundles of spurge with him to poison the river! In Mr. Knox's Country 2011-11-21T03:00:16.010Z Bitter as spurge was that old story of hers now, and bitterer still the only moral lesson it now appeared to her to have. The Story of Louie 2011-10-26T02:00:27.053Z Individual myrtle spurge plants and their seeds are long lived. ‘Waterwise’ ornamental plant taking over Wasatch foothills 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z Each was treated with the sap of the petty spurge plant, or Euphorbia peplus, which was applied to the skin once a day for three days. Common weed skin cancer treatment 2011-01-25T16:59:53Z The vegetation scarcely marked the changing seasons, save where in winter the moss was a livelier golden-green, or where, beside spurges and sea-holly and yellow horned poppies, stone-crops were reddened by August suns. Carnival Other wart-curing plants are the spurge, the poppy, the celandine, the marigold, the briony, and the crowfoot. Storyology Essays in Folk-Lore, Sea-Lore, and Plant-Lore Or they may be dried away by some moderately corroding application, such as the milky juice of fig leaves, of swallow wort, or of spurge. The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families Known as Euphorbia myrsinites, myrtle spurge is native to the rocky lands of the eastern Mediterranean. ‘Waterwise’ ornamental plant taking over Wasatch foothills 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z The thrift, sea lavender, rocket, sea campion, and maritime spurge did not descend so low as this. Waiting for Daylight These neglected spots are overgrown with gorse, brambles, nettles, blackthorn, and mullein, as well as with the bitter spurges, and the stringy inedible bracken. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 Well; do not open my eyes with pincers, nor compose for them a collyrium of spurge. Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection There are even representatives of the order in England: for the beautiful ‘spurge laurel’ of the woods and hedges—known as a remedy for the toothache—is a true daphnad. The Cliff Climbers A Sequel to "The Plant Hunters" State officials added myrtle spurge to the cast of biological miscreants last year, assigning it to the “prohibited” class, making it unlawful to sell in Utah. ‘Waterwise’ ornamental plant taking over Wasatch foothills 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z Daphne laureola, spurge laurel—in Selborne Hanger and the High Wood. The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2 In northern countries the plants are mostly small weeds, of which the various spurges or Euphorbias are the most familiar. Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses The gardens round Catania, nestling into cracks and ridges of the stiffened flood, are marvellously brilliant with spurge and fennel and valerian. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series Yellowish green cup-like leaves are forming upon the brown and drooping heads of the spurge, which, sheltered by the bushes, has endured the winter's frosts. Nature Near London Resembling big overripe broccoli tops, myrtle spurge blankets some hillsides, especially exposed south- and west-facing slopes above Salt Lake City neighborhoods. ‘Waterwise’ ornamental plant taking over Wasatch foothills 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z So, too, spinach and lettuce may be covered with blight, while the bitter spurges, the woolly-leaved arabis, and the strong-scented thyme close by are utterly untouched. Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science But cockle, spurge, according to their law Might propagate their kind, with none to awe, 60 You'd think; a burr had been a treasure trove. Browning's Shorter Poems But what people take for thickets of cactus in the Indian jungle are really thickets of cactus-like spurges. Science in Arcady Plantains and docks, wild spurge, hops climbing up a dead fir tree, a well-chosen pole for them—nothing is omitted. Nature Near London Hardest hit are City Creek, Emigration, Mill Creek and Neffs canyons, where spurge is proliferating at an exponential rate. ‘Waterwise’ ornamental plant taking over Wasatch foothills 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z Most of these fallacious pseudo-cactuses are really spurges or euphorbias by family. Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science The same plants grow from both alike—spurge, cistus, rue, and henbane, constant to the desolation of abandoned dwellings. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series In the dry soil of India, many spurges grow thick and succulent, learn to suppress their leaves, and assume the bizarre forms and quaint jointed appearance of the true cactuses. Science in Arcady There is marjoram and sage, clary, spearmint, peppermint, salsify, elecampane, tansy, assafœtida, coriander, angelica, caper spurge, lamb's lettuce, and sorrel. Nature Near London Forest Service botanist Mike Duncan has seen myrtle spurge in every canyon he has visited along the Wasatch Front. ‘Waterwise’ ornamental plant taking over Wasatch foothills 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z He treated phthisis with the sundew; at opportune moments he would use the leaves of the spurge, which plucked at the bottom are a purgative and plucked at the top, an emetic. The Man Who Laughs They had not far to go, and a few minutes after, some old trunks, hidden in between the spurges, appeared in the midst of an intense buzzing of bees. Dick Sand A Captain at Fifteen All about me were rocks that had been burnt red, black, or yellow, and on their scorched surface not a shrub, nor a blade of grass, nor even a tuft of spurge, grew. Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine A refluent spurge Shall that destructive course reverse, And cause those sun-mists to converge To mould another universe; Again shall constellations rise, And suns and planets light the skies, And man regain his paradise. Poems And when spurge stalks break, they ooze a caustic white sap that can irritate skin and damage eyes. ‘Waterwise’ ornamental plant taking over Wasatch foothills 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z Vegetable blood changes colour in the leaves; experiment with spurge; with picris. The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation The spurges grew alone and in profusion—not the euphosbium which produces cassava or tapioca flour, but those from which they draw an oil which does not serve as food. Dick Sand A Captain at Fifteen Tall woody spurges two feet high or more, with tufts of dusty green leaves, managed to draw, however, abundant moisture from the waste, as the milk that gushed from the smallest wound attested. Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine Pound together garlic and laserpitium juice, add to this mixture some Laconian spurge, and rub it well into the eyelids at night. The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 Adding further insult to injury, myrtle spurge lacks a root network that might otherwise hold soils together. ‘Waterwise’ ornamental plant taking over Wasatch foothills 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z There I find something that approaches companionship in the prickly juniper, the narcotic hellebore, and the acrid spurge. Two Summers in Guyenne Then did he dip it into vinegar, to try if it was not written with the juice of the garden spurge. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2 Then there are patches of candytuft running from white into pink, crimson flowers of the little crane's-bill, and spurges whose floral leaves are now losing their golden green and taking a hue of fiery brown. Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine The Ipecac spurge or Euphorbia Ipecacuanha occurs from Connecticut to Florida, mainly near the coast, preferring dry and sandy soil. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation “If we can get the seed heads, we are reducing next year’s crop of myrtle spurge,” Pecchia-Bekkum said. ‘Waterwise’ ornamental plant taking over Wasatch foothills 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z The vegetable kingdom also has been equally mindful of his majesty's food, the spurge having long been named "devil's milk" and the briony the "devil's cherry." The Folk-lore of Plants A creeper of bramble fenced round one side of the spurge and white grass bunch, and brown leaves were visible on the surface of the ground through the interstices of the spray. The Open Air I had seen spurge and juniper, and ribs of rock rising everywhere above the short turf, until I grew weary of the sameness. Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine Stalks of spurge, thickening towards the top, and then surrounded with leaves, and above these dull yellow-green flowers, grow in shrub-like bunches in more open ground. The Life of the Fields Salt Lake County officials declared spurge a noxious weed a decade ago and began a public education campaign. ‘Waterwise’ ornamental plant taking over Wasatch foothills 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z It is as though the neighbouring mountain had one day departed, leaving here its thistles, its dogberry-trees, its brooms, its rushes, its juniper-bushes, its laburnums, and its spurges. Fabre, Poet of Science Well, that stomach the vermin possess: they revel in the pungency of the woolly milk mushroom even as the spurge caterpillar browses with delight on the loathsome leaves of the euphorbiae. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography There was nothing new for me upon the bare hills, where all vegetation was parched up except the juniper bushes and the spurge. Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine In snug corners, among the rocks, the great spurge of our district, the characias of the Greeks, the jusclo of the Provencals, begins to lift its drooping inflorescence and discreetly opens a few sombre flowers. Bramble-Bees and Others Today, myrtle spurge can be seen growing in many Salt Lake City yards, often metastasizing into neighboring yards and along sidewalks. ‘Waterwise’ ornamental plant taking over Wasatch foothills 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z The flowering spurge, having its staminate and pistillate flowers distinct, depends upon flies, its truest benefactors, to transfer pollen from the former to the latter. Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors I recognized some spurges that let their caustic, purgative sap trickle out. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea The first noiseless breeze of morning, cautiously stirring the spurges and the brown stalks of last year's grass, fluttered along the road. The Witch and other stories Our wood spurge is poisonous enough, but this is worse still; if you get a drop of its milk on your lip or eye, you will be in agonies for half a day. Madam How and Lady Why From the milky juice alone one might guess the spurge to be related to the rubber plant. Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors A very commonplace and uninteresting looking weed is this spurge, which no one but a botanist would suspect of kinship with the brilliant vermilion poinsettia, so commonly grown in American greenhouses. Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors No. It is Irish spurge which grows here, and sometimes in Devonshire, and then again in the west of Europe, down to the Pyrenees. Madam How and Lady Why Why, it is only great spurge, such as grows in the woods at home. Madam How and Lady Why But why is it that this spurge, and St. Patrick’s cabbage, grow only here in the west? Madam How and Lady Why |
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