About The Word Milkweed
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Milkweed
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What's The Definition Of Milkweed?
[n] annual Eurasian sow thistle with soft spiny leaves and rayed yellow flower heads
[n] any of numerous plants of the genus Asclepias having milky juice and pods that split open releasing seeds with downy tufts Synonyms | Synonyms for Milkweed: silkweed | Sonchus oleraceus Related Terms | Find terms related to Milkweed: See Also | Asclepia meadii | Asclepias | Asclepias albicans | Asclepias curassavica | Asclepias exaltata | Asclepias incarnata | Asclepias meadii | Asclepias purpurascens | Asclepias speciosa | Asclepias subverticillata | Asclepias tuberosa | Asclepias verticillata | blood flower | butterfly weed | chiggerflower | genus Asclepias | herb | herbaceous plant | horsetail milkweed | Indian paintbrush | Mead's milkweed | milk thistle | orange milkweed | pleurisy root | poison milkweed | poke milkweed | purple silkweed | showy milkweed | sow thistle | swallowwort | swamp milkweed | tuber root | white milkweed | whorled milkweed Milkweed In Webster's Dictionary \Milk"weed`\, n. (Bot.)
Any plant of the genera {Asclepias} and {Acerates}, abounding
in a milky juice, and having its seed attached to a long
silky down; silkweed. The name is also applied to several
other plants with a milky juice, as to several kinds of
spurge.
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