Hypertext Webster Gateway: "milkweed"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Milkweed \Milk"weed`\, n. (Bot.)
Any plant of the genera {Asclepias} and {Acerates}, abounding
in a milky juice, and having its seed attached to a long
silky down; silkweed. The name is also applied to several
other plants with a milky juice, as to several kinds of
spurge.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
milkweed
n 1: any of numerous plants of the genus Asclepias having milky
juice and pods that split open releasing seeds with
downy tufts [syn: {silkweed}]
2: annual Eurasian sow thistle with soft spiny leaves and rayed
yellow flower heads [syn: {Sonchus oleraceus}]
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