milk hedge

English

Noun

milk hedge (uncountable)

  1. Any of various Indian plants of the genus Euphorbia, especially E. tirucalli, having milky sap.
    • 1885, Edward Balfour, Cyclopaedia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, 3rd edition, volume I, London: Bernard Quaritch, page 132:
      Natives of India suspend in their houses a few branches of milk-hedge to attact flies.
    • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 132:
      The mixture consists of powder of the milk hedge plant and kantaka plant, together with monkey excrement and the powdered root of the lanjalika plant.
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