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Milkweed   /mˈɪlkwˌid/   Listen
Milkweed

noun
1.
Any of numerous plants of the genus Asclepias having milky juice and pods that split open releasing seeds with downy tufts.  Synonym: silkweed.
2.
Annual Eurasian sow thistle with soft spiny leaves and rayed yellow flower heads.  Synonym: Sonchus oleraceus.



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"Milkweed" Quotes from Famous Books



... sigh of the first autumnal wind, and even the water had acquired a grayer hue. The sumach, grape, and maple were already changed, and the milkweed had turned to a deep rich yellow. In all woods the leaves were fast ripening for their fall; for their full veins and lively gloss mark the ripe leaf, and not the sered one of the poets; and we knew that the maples, stripped of their leaves among the earliest, would soon stand like a wreath ...
— A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers • Henry David Thoreau



Words linked to "Milkweed" :   Indian paintbrush, Asclepias, pleurisy root, milk thistle, Asclepias verticillata, chigger flower, Asclepias curassavica, blood flower, purple silkweed, swallowwort, herbaceous plant, tuber root, Asclepias incarnata, Asclepias tuberosa, Asclepias meadii, butterfly weed, herb, chiggerflower, Asclepias exaltata, sow thistle, Asclepias subverticillata, Asclepias purpurascens, Asclepia meadii, Asclepias speciosa, Asclepias albicans, genus Asclepias



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