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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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... bit from the subject in hand. Weeds are again discouraging because they have such facilities for travel. Talk about flying machines—weeds are centuries ahead of men along these lines. Look at a milkweed seed; it is a complete flying apparatus. With its perfect ballast it flies beautifully along over field and river ready to alight in proper seed ...
— The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. • Ellen Eddy Shaw
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Words linked to "Milkweed" :   purple silkweed, chiggerflower, Asclepias incarnata, Asclepias tuberosa, Asclepias purpurascens, Asclepias albicans, sow thistle, swallowwort, Asclepias verticillata, herb, silkweed, poison milkweed, tuber root, butterfly weed, chigger flower, blood flower, Indian paintbrush, Asclepias meadii, Asclepia meadii, Asclepias subverticillata, milk thistle, Asclepias, Asclepias exaltata, Mead's milkweed, Asclepias curassavica, Sonchus oleraceus, herbaceous plant, pleurisy root, Asclepias speciosa, genus Asclepias


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