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Milkweed logo #10101) American young adult novel 2) Herb 3) Herbaceous plant 4) Historical novel 5) Latex source 6) Silkweed 7) Sticky plant
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Milkweed

Milkweed logo #10101) Chigger flower 2) Silkweed 3) Swallowwort
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Milkweed

Milkweed logo #21002• (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.
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milkweed

milkweed logo #21003(from the article `Asclepiadaceae`) the milkweed family of the flowering-plant order Gentianales, including more than 280 genera and about 2,000 species of tropical herbs or shrubby ... The milkweed family, Asclepiadaceae, is characterized by specialized, oblong pollen masses (the pollinia) and by latex in all vegetative parts. Its ......
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milkweed

milkweed logo #21003any of several species of flowering plants belonging to the family Apocynaceae (formerly in Asclepiadaceae).
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Milkweed

Milkweed logo #10004(Asclepias) Most of these perennials are from North America, but at least one is from South Africa and one is found in tropical America. Nearly all of these erect plants grow 2 or 3 feet high, but one, A. physocarpa (also known as Gomphocarpus physocarpus and commonly known as the Swan Plant), grows up to 6 feet high with a spread of 2 feet. This p...
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Milkweed

Milkweed logo #20972Milk'weed` noun (Botany) 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.
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milkweed

milkweed logo #20400[n] - any of numerous plants of the genus Asclepias having milky juice and pods that split open releasing seeds with downy tufts 2. [n] - annual Eurasian sow thistle with soft spiny leaves and rayed yellow flower heads
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milkweed

milkweed logo #20974 noun annual Eurasian sow thistle with soft spiny leaves and rayed yellow flower heads
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milkweed

milkweed logo #20974silkweed noun any of numerous plants of the genus Asclepias having milky juice and pods that split open releasing seeds with downy tufts
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