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MILKWEED
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Annual Eurasian sow thistle with soft spiny leaves and rayed yellow flower heads
Synonyms:
milkweed; Sonchus oleraceus
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("milkweed" is a kind of...):
milk thistle; sow thistle (any of several Old World coarse prickly-leaved shrubs and subshrubs having milky juice and yellow flowers; widely naturalized; often noxious weeds in cultivated soil)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Any of numerous plants of the genus Asclepias having milky juice and pods that split open releasing seeds with downy tufts
Synonyms:
milkweed; silkweed
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("milkweed" is a kind of...):
herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "milkweed"):
Asclepias albicans; white milkweed (tall herb with leafless white waxy stems and whitish starlike flowers; southwestern United States)
Asclepias curassavica; blood flower; swallowwort (tropical herb having orange-red flowers followed by pods suggesting a swallow with outspread wings; a weed throughout the tropics)
Asclepias exaltata; poke milkweed (milkweed of the eastern United States with leaves resembling those of pokeweed)
Asclepias incarnata; swamp milkweed (densely branching perennial of the eastern United States with white to crimson or purple flowers)
Asclepia meadii; Asclepias meadii; Mead's milkweed (milkweed of central North America; a threatened species)
Asclepias purpurascens; purple silkweed (perennial of eastern North America having pink-purple flowers)
Asclepias speciosa; showy milkweed (milkweed of southern North America having large starry purple and pink flowers)
Asclepias subverticillata; horsetail milkweed; poison milkweed (milkweed of southwestern United States and Mexico; poisonous to livestock)
Asclepias tuberosa; butterfly weed; chigger flower; chiggerflower; Indian paintbrush; orange milkweed; pleurisy root; tuber root (erect perennial of eastern and southern United States having showy orange flowers)
Asclepias verticillata; whorled milkweed (milkweed of the eastern United States with narrow leaves in whorls and greenish-white flowers)
Holonyms ("milkweed" is a member of...):
Asclepias; genus Asclepias (genus of chiefly North American perennial herbs: silkweed; milkweed)
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