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milkweed |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Milkweed \Milk"weed`\, n. (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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: milkweed n 1: any of numerous plants of the genus Asclepias having milky juice and pods that split open releasing seeds with downy tufts [syn: {silkweed}] 2: annual Eurasian sow thistle with soft spiny leaves and rayed yellow flower heads [syn: {Sonchus oleraceus}]
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