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Definition of Milkwort
1. Noun. Any of various plants of the genus Polygala.
Specialized synonyms: Polygala Alba, Senega, Candyweed, Orange Milkwort, Polygala Lutea, Yellow Bachelor's Button, Yellow Milkwort, Bird-on-the-wing, Flowering Wintergreen, Fringed Polygala, Gaywings, Polygala Paucifolia, Polygala Senega, Seneca Snakeroot, Senega Root, Senega Snakeroot, Seneka Snakeroot, Senga Root, Common Milkwort, Gand Flower, Polygala Vulgaris
Generic synonyms: Subshrub, Suffrutex
Definition of Milkwort
1. n. A genus of plants (Polygala) of many species. The common European P. vulgaris was supposed to have the power of producing a flow of milk in nurses.
Definition of Milkwort
1. Noun. Any of more than 500 species of flowering plants of the genus ''Polygala'' that are used as a food source by the larvae of some members of the Lepidoptra species. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Milkwort
1. a flowering plant [n -S]
Medical Definition of Milkwort
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Literary usage of Milkwort
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gardeners Dictionary: Containing the Methods of Cultivating and ...by Philip Miller by Philip Miller (1754)
"Narrow - leav'd milkwort of Maryland, with a purple Flower. 19. ... milkwort, •ith
a Box-leaf, and a very large Flower. ..."
2. Nantucket Wild Flowers by Alice Owen Albertson (1921)
"E milkwort FAMILY Polygala cruciata, Walt. Dull magenta-pink Bitter milkwort,
Polygala, ... This low, pretty milkwort with its clover-like heads of dull ..."
3. Flora of the Southern United States: Containing Abridged Descriptions of the by Alvan Wentworth Chapman (1872)
"POLYGALA, L. milkwort. Sepals 5, persistent, unequal ; the two lateral ones (wings)
larger and petal-like. Petals 3, more or less united ; the middle one ..."
4. Wild Flowers Worth Knowing by Neltje Blanchan, Asa Don Dickinson (1917)
"milkwort FAMILY (Polygalaceae) Fringed milkwort or Polygala; Flowering Wintergreen;
... Unlike the common milkwort and many of its kin that grow in ..."
5. Southern Wild Flowers and Trees: Together with Shrubs, Vines and Various by Alice Lounsberry (1901)
"P. cruciata, cross-leaved, or marsh milkwort, covers an extended range through
sandy swamps mainly along the coast and belongs to the group of ..."
6. Botany of the United States North of Virginia: Comprising Descriptions of by Lewis Caleb Beck (1848)
"Abundant in a peat bog four miles south of New Brunswick, NJ Yellow milkwort, ***
Flowers in corymbs. 10. P. cymosa Walt.: stem simple below, corymbose at ..."
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