MILKWEED
Definition:
- [noun] any of numerous plants of the genus Asclepias having milky juice and pods that split open releasing seeds with downy tufts
Synonyms: silkweed
- [noun] annual Eurasian sow thistle with soft spiny leaves and rayed yellow flower heads
Synonyms: Sonchus oleraceus
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Related Words:
- white milkweed, Asclepias albicans
- blood flower, swallowwort, Asclepias curassavica
- poke milkweed, Asclepias exaltata
- swamp milkweed, Asclepias incarnata
- Mead's milkweed, Asclepias meadii, Asclepia meadii
- purple silkweed, Asclepias purpurascens
- showy milkweed, Asclepias speciosa
- poison milkweed, horsetail milkweed, Asclepias subverticillata
- butterfly weed, orange milkweed, chigger flower, chiggerflower, pleurisy root, tuber root, Indian paintbrush, Asclepias tuberosa
- whorled milkweed, Asclepias verticillata
