milkweed

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun milkweed has 2 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

milkweedn. 
     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. Its leaves are a favorite food source for the larvae of the monarch butterfly.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

milkweed, n. any of various wild plants with milky juice.


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