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Definition of Milkweed
1. Noun. Any of numerous plants of the genus Asclepias having milky juice and pods that split open releasing seeds with downy tufts.
Generic synonyms: Herb, Herbaceous Plant
Group relationships: Asclepias, Genus Asclepias
Specialized synonyms: Asclepias Albicans, White Milkweed, Asclepias Curassavica, Blood Flower, Swallowwort, Asclepias Exaltata, Poke Milkweed, Asclepias Incarnata, Swamp Milkweed, Asclepia Meadii, Asclepias Meadii, Mead's Milkweed, Asclepias Purpurascens, Purple Silkweed, Asclepias Speciosa, Showy Milkweed, Asclepias Subverticillata, Horsetail Milkweed, Poison Milkweed, Asclepias Tuberosa, Butterfly Weed, Chigger Flower, Chiggerflower, Indian Paintbrush, Orange Milkweed, Pleurisy Root, Tuber Root, Asclepias Verticillata, Whorled Milkweed
2. Noun. Annual Eurasian sow thistle with soft spiny leaves and rayed yellow flower heads.
Definition of Milkweed
1. n. 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.
Definition of Milkweed
1. Noun. Any of several plants, of the genus ''Asclepias'', that have a milky sap and have pods that split to release seeds with silky tufts. ¹
2. Noun. A monarch butterfly. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Milkweed
1. a plant that secretes a milky juice [n -S]
Medical Definition of Milkweed
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Milkweed
Literary usage of Milkweed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Minnesota Plant Life by Conway MacMillan (1899)
"Each milkweed flower consists of a five-parted calyx, usually small. Within,
there appear the five corolla lobes, turned back around the pedicel of the ..."
2. The Journal of Heredity by American Genetic Association (1917)
"It is a familiar fact to students of botany that the flower base of the milkweed
has no sticky substance on it but is furnished with remarkable ..."
3. Nature Study and the Child by Charles B. Scott (1900)
"Hence we should first study such a plant as the milkweed, which is typical of
the hairy-winged seeds, and gather about it two or three other seeds with ..."
4. Rubber-content of North American Plants by Harvey Monroe Hall, Frances Louise Long (1921)
"This milkweed has yielded the highest percentage of rubber of all the species
... This is the most abundant milkweed in the eastern United States and Canada ..."
5. A Manual of the Medical Botany of North America by Laurence Johnson (1884)
"milkweed. Character of the Genus.—Calyx 5-parted, persistent, ... Swamp milkweed.
Description.—Hoods of the crown scarcely as long as the slender, ..."
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