milkweed – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
milkweed
n.
plant with milky juice and flowers (Botany)
Asclepias
milkweed
Noun
1. any of numerous plants of the genus Asclepias having milky juice and pods that split open releasing seeds with downy tufts
(synonym) silkweed
(hypernym) herb, herbaceous plant
(hyponym) white milkweed, Asclepias albicans
(member-holonym) Asclepias, genus Asclepias
2. annual Eurasian sow thistle with soft spiny leaves and rayed yellow flower heads
(synonym) Sonchus oleraceus
(hypernym) sow thistle, milk thistle
Milkweed
(n.)
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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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