Definition of Milkweed. Meaning of Milkweed. Synonyms of Milkweed

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Definition of Milkweed

Milkweed
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.

Meaning of Milkweed from wikipedia

- Asclepias is a genus of herbaceous, perennial, flowering plants known as milkweeds, named for their latex, a milky substance containing cardiac glycosides...
- plexippus) is a milkweed butterfly (subfamily Danainae) in the family Nymphalidae. Other common names, depending on region, include milkweed, common tiger...
- Milkweed Editions is an independent nonprofit literary publisher that originated from the Milkweed Chronicle literary and arts journal established in Minneapolis...
- Oncopeltus fasciatus, known as the large milkweed bug, is a medium-sized hemipteran (true bug) of the family Lygaeidae. It is distributed throughout North...
- Woolly milkweed may refer to several species of plants: Woolly milkweed, Asclepias lanuginosa, native to the upper Midwest United States and Canada Woolly...
- Asclepias cur****avica, commonly known as tropical milkweed, is a flowering plant species of the milkweed genus, Asclepias. It is native to the American tropics...
- Look up milkweed in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Milkweed, Asclepias, is a genus of herbaceous, perennial, flowering plants named for their milky...
- Asclepias syriaca, commonly called common milkweed, butterfly flower, silkweed, silky swallow-wort, and Virginia silkweed, is a species of flowering plant...
- Lygaeus kalmii, known as the small milkweed bug or common milkweed bug, is a species of seed bug in the family Lygaeidae. It is found in Central and North...
- Asclepias tuberosa, commonly known as butterfly weed, is a species of milkweed native to eastern and southwestern North America. It is commonly known as...