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Silkweed   Listen
noun
Silkweed  n.  (Bot.) Any plant of the genera Asclepias and Acerates whose seed vessels contain a long, silky down; milkweed.






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"Silkweed" Quotes from Famous Books



... saturating the water with the juice of the soap-root plant (Chlorogalum pomeridianum). Before they could obtain fishhooks of modern make, they made them of bone. Their lines were made of the tough, fibrous, silken bark of the variety of milkweed or silkweed, already mentioned. Their spears were small poles pointed with a single tine of bone, which was so arranged that it became detached by the struggles of the fish, and was then held by a string fastened near its center, ...
— Indians of the Yosemite Valley and Vicinity - Their History, Customs and Traditions • Galen Clark



Words linked to "Silkweed" :   Asclepias speciosa, white milkweed, Asclepias tuberosa, showy milkweed, Asclepias purpurascens, blood flower, genus Asclepias, Asclepias albicans, whorled milkweed, swallowwort, milkweed, Asclepias, Asclepia meadii, tuber root, herbaceous plant, herb, Mead's milkweed, Asclepias incarnata, Asclepias exaltata, Asclepias curassavica, poison milkweed, chigger flower, Indian paintbrush



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