devil's milk

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Noun1.devil's milk - an Old World spurge introduced as a weed in the eastern United States
Euphorbia, genus Euphorbia - type genus of the Euphorbiaceae: very large genus of diverse plants all having milky juice
spurge - any of numerous plants of the genus Euphorbia; usually having milky often poisonous juice
2.devil's milk - not unattractive European weed whose flowers turn toward the sundevil's milk - not unattractive European weed whose flowers turn toward the sun
Euphorbia, genus Euphorbia - type genus of the Euphorbiaceae: very large genus of diverse plants all having milky juice
spurge - any of numerous plants of the genus Euphorbia; usually having milky often poisonous juice
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Rubber-what John Tully elsewhere has termed "the devil's milk"--has long been an object of colonial fascination, with the attendant bloodstained social history to match.
John Tully, The Devil's Milk: A Social History of Rubber (New York: Monthly Review Press 2011)
John Tully, The Devil's Milk: A Social History of Rubber, Monthly Review Press, New York, 2011.
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