swallowwort Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun tropical herb having orange-red flowers followed by pods suggesting a swallow with outspread wings; a weed throughout the tropics
    Asclepias curassavica; blood flower.
  2. noun perennial herb with branched woody stock and bright yellow flowers
    greater celandine; swallow wort; celandine; Chelidonium majus.

WordNet

Swal"low*wort` noun
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) (a) See Celandine. (b) A poisonous plant (Vincetoxicum officinale) of the Milkweed family, at one time used in medicine; -- also called white swallowwort.

Webster 1913