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milkwort
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun milkwort has 1 sense
- milkwort(n = noun.plant) Array - any of various plants of the genus Polygala; Array is a member of genus polygala, polygala
has particulars: polygala alba, senega, candyweed, orange milkwort, polygala lutea, yellow bachelor's button, yellow milkwort, bird-on-the-wing, flowering wintergreen, fringed polygala, gaywings, polygala paucifolia, polygala senega, seneca snakeroot, senega root, senega snakeroot, seneka snakeroot, senga root, common milkwort, gand flower, polygala vulgaris
is a kind of subshrub, suffrutex
CIDE DICTIONARY
milkwort, n.
A genus of plants (Polygala ) of many species. The common European Polygala vulgaris was supposed to have the power of producing a flow of milk in nurses. [1913 Webster]
" The species of Campanula , or bellflower, are sometimes called milkwort, from their juice."
[1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
milkwort, n. any plant of the genus Polygala, formerly supposed to increase women's milk.
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