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Milkweed

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Noun

1. milkweed, silkweed

any of numerous plants of the genus Asclepias having milky juice and pods that split open releasing seeds with downy tufts

2. milkweed, sonchus oleraceus

annual Eurasian sow thistle with soft spiny leaves and rayed yellow flower heads

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Milkweed

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noun
1. Also called: silkweed
any plant of the mostly North American genus Asclepias, having milky sap and pointed pods that split open to release tufted seeds: family Asclepiadaceae
See also asclepias
2. 
any of various other plants having milky sap
3.  orange milkweed
4.  another name for monarch (sense 3)

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Milkweed

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noun
1. 
any of a genus (Asclepias) of perennial plants of the milkweed family, with a milky juice, or latex, and pods which when ripe burst to release plumed seeds
2. 
any of various plants with similar milky juice
adjective
3. 
designating a large family (Asclepiadaceae, order Gentianales) of dicotyledonous plants with a milky juice, including the anglepods and stapelias

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Milkweed

see synonyms of milkweed
n.
Any of various plants of the genus Asclepias, having milky juice, usually opposite leaves, variously colored flowers grouped in umbels, and pods that split open to release seeds with downy tufts.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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