- white milkweed
- nountall herb with leafless white waxy stems and whitish starlike flowers; southwestern United States• Syn: ↑Asclepias albicans
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milkweed butterfly — noun large migratory American butterfly having deep orange wings with black and white markings; the larvae feed on milkweed • Syn: ↑monarch, ↑monarch butterfly, ↑Danaus plexippus • Hypernyms: ↑danaid, ↑danaid butterfly • Member Holonym … Useful english dictionary
milkweed family — the plant family Asclepiadaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and vines having simple, opposite or whorled leaves, usually milky juice, umbellike clusters of small flowers, and long pods that split open to release tufted, airborne… … Universalium
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milkweed butterfly — See monarch butterfly. [1875 80, Amer.] * * * ▪ insect group any of a group of butterflies in the brush footed butterfly (q.v.) family, Nymphalidae (order Lepidoptera). Some authorities consider this group to be at the family level… … Universalium
white swallowwort — Swallowwort Swal low*wort , n. (Bot.) (a) See {Celandine}. (b) A poisonous plant ({Vincetoxicum officinale}) of the Milkweed family, at one time used in medicine; also called {white swallowwort}. [1913 Webster] {African swallowwort}, a plant of… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
milkweed — milk|weed [ˈmılkwi:d] n [U] a common North American plant that produces a bitter white substance when its stem is broken … Dictionary of contemporary English
milkweed — milk|weed [ mılk,wid ] noun uncount a wild North American plant that has a white liquid inside its stem … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
milkweed — noun (U) a common North American plant that produces a bitter white substance when its stem is broken … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
milkweed — milk•weed [[t]ˈmɪlkˌwid[/t]] n. 1) pln any of several plants of the genus Asclepias, characterized by a milky juice, clusters of white to purple flowers, and pods filled with silky tufted seeds 2) pln any of various other plants having a milky… … From formal English to slang
white indian hemp — noun Usage: usually capitalized I : swamp milkweed … Useful english dictionary
