Meaning of MILKWEED
| Pronunciation: | | 'milk`weed
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- [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
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| | Synonyms: | | silkweed, Sonchus oleraceus |
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| | 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 | |
| Products Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | Milkweed
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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