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Milkweed Common

Milkweed has 4 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

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

2

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

3

Any of several plants that have a milky sap and have pods that split to release seeds with silky tufts.

4

Principally of the genus Asclepias in order Gentianales, family Apocynaceae

See Also
gentianales orange milkweed asclepias sap condurango pod milkweeds vegetable mercury
Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
herb sow thistle
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
white milkweed blood flower poke milkweed swamp milkweed Mead's milkweed purple silkweed showy milkweed poison milkweed butterfly weed whorled milkweed
Rhyming Words
eed feed meed seed heed weed teed need deed keed peed leed beed reed steed speed freed ogeed greed treed
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