Obs. Herb. [a. F. catapuce; in It. catapuzza, med.L. cataputia: cf. L. catapotium, Gr. καταπότιον that which can be gulped down, pill, bolus (whence It. catapotio, Florio.] Lesser Spurge Euphorbia Lathyris.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Nonne Pr. T., 145. Of catapus or of gaytre beriis.
[1791. Huddesford, Salmagundi (1793), 140. Without purge or catapotium.
1794. Martyn, Rousseau’s Bot., xx. 284. Called Broad leaved Spurge or Cataputia.]
