wolf's-milkn.
/ˈwʊlfsmɪlk/, U.S. /ˈwʊlfsˌmɪlk/ 1.
a. A spurge, esp. the sun-spurge, Euphorbia Helioscopia; so called from the acrid milky juice.
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nettlewort1523
essell1527
lint-spurge1548
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spurge thyme1548
line-spurge1562
myrtle spurge1562
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wolf's-milk1575
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Euphorbium1606
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spurge-wort1647
caper-bush1673
Portland spurge1715
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Medusa's head1760
little-good1808
welcome-home-husband1828
three-seeded mercury1846
cat's-milk1861
turnsole1863–79
mole-tree1864
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asthma herb1887
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1575 J. Banister Needefull Treat. Chyrurg. sig. N.v Esula, Woulfes milke.
1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke 364/1 For the Felone of the Finger. Take the herbe called Woluesmilcke, tye the same with the Flowers on the Felon [etc.].
1861 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. V. 5 Euphorbia helioscopia (Sun Spurge)..Country people call it..Wolf's-milk.
1897 R. N. Bain tr. M. Jókai Pretty Michal (ed. 2) xxv. 201 The witch took freshly plucked wolf's-milk flowers.
b. The fungus Lycogala.
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wolf's-milk1861
lizard's herb1866
fairy ring1870
Malta fungus1870
flowers of tan1882
mycorrhiza1886
fumago1887
milky cap1887
moss-gold1887
oomycete1889
razor strop fungus1893
club-fungusa1909
sulphur tuft1909
bolete1914
old man of the woods1972
1861 H. Macmillan Footnotes from Nature 288 The beautiful round vermilion balls of the Lycogala, or Wolf's milk.
2. The milk of a wolf.
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the world > food and drink > food > animal food > [noun] > food of wolves
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > [noun] > genus Canis > canis lupus (wolf) > parts of
wolf's-headc1000
stern1575
wolf's-milk1847
1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess vii. 148 Half the wolf's-milk curdled in their veins.
1892 H. R. Haggard Nada the Lily xvii They have drunk wolf's milk.
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