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Milkwort  n.  (Bot.) 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. Note: The species of Campanula, or bellflower, are sometimes called milkwort, from their juice.





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"Milkwort" Quotes from Famous Books



... but there is hardly an attempt to alter its character within, unless by a round plot of rhododendrons offering a few late blossoms. But all nature, however stern and savage, smiles on a July day. The purple heather-bell is in bloom, the tiny blue milkwort and the yellow rock-rose help to make a summer carpet which is rendered still gayer by many a pale peach- coloured orchis and by an occasional spray of wild roses, deeper in the rose than the same flower ...
— Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, (Victoria) Vol II • Sarah Tytler


Words linked to "Milkwort" :   subshrub, flowering wintergreen, yellow bachelor's button, fringed polygala, suffrutex, senega, senga root, Polygala, gand flower, common milkwort, sea milkwort, Polygala lutea, yellow milkwort, orange milkwort, senega snakeroot, gaywings, Polygala paucifolia, Polygala alba, Polygala senega, candyweed, Seneca snakeroot, milkwort family, Seneka snakeroot


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