milkweed Meaning, Definition & Usage
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noun any of numerous plants of the genus Asclepias having milky juice and pods that split open releasing seeds with downy tufts
silkweed.
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noun annual Eurasian sow thistle with soft spiny leaves and rayed yellow flower heads
Sonchus oleraceus.
WordNet
Milk"weed` noun
Definitions
(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.
