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Annual Eurasian sow thistle with soft spiny leaves and rayed yellow flower heads
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milkweed
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. any of numerous plants of the genus Asclepias having milky juice and pods that split open releasing seeds with downy tufts [syn: silkweed ] annual Eurasian sow thistle with soft spiny leaves and rayed yellow flower heads [syn: Sonchus oleraceus ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ As protection against herbivores such as caterpillars, the milkweed produces chemical deterrents on its leaves. ▪ For the monarchs, Mr Harris brought down from Atlanta a special tall-growing variety of milkweed I had never seen ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, from milk (n.) + weed (n.); used in reference to various plants whose juice resembles milk.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Any of several plants, of the genus ''Asclepias'', that have a milky sap and have pods that split to release seeds with silky tufts. 2 A monarch butterfly.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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 ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Milkweed is a 2003 young adult historical fiction novel by American author Jerry Spinelli . The book is about a boy in Warsaw , Poland in the years of World War II during the Holocaust . Over time he is taken in by a Jewish group of orphans and he must ...
Usage examples of milkweed.
Leeta took a few shuffling steps forward, the milkweed pods on her belt clacking against each other.
Now to have these outsiders see me in the company of dumpy little Leeta, all milkweed and daisies hanging haphazardly around her ears.
Gradually, the claws on my sash, the milkweed pods, everything else prodding between our tightlocked bodies tweaked into more comfortable positions and drifted out of my consciousness.
His white hair lay all around him on the ground, and his beard spread out around his small brown face so that he looked like a milkweed seed.
This pollen from the transgenetic corn, or TG corn, then lands in the milkweed that surrounds most cornfields.
Oh, yes, I suspect a few butterflies have died from eating milkweed with TG corn pollen on it.
The others saw the monster as it leaped upon and murdered a vividly colored caterpillar on a milkweed near the limit of vision.
But already on the far side of the milkweed, an ant-lion climbed up to do murder among them.
This ant-lion charged into the placidly feeding aphids on the milkweed plant.
There was this level space, and on it there were toadstools and milkweed, and there was food.
She picked a pod of milkweed and blew on it until the seeds lifted into the sky.
She has always told me that you could blow your bad fortune away by doing so, and as I watched the milkweed drift upward into the sky, I wished I still believed in things like that.
Moonlight spills across the lawns on Maple Street and what looks like little stars are floating right past, a wave of milkweed spores, luminous and mysterious as they drift through the dark.
He had played with the milkweed pods at the edge of the little flat square while his father and his grandfather went through the complicated sparring dances with wooden swords or bamboo pikes festooned on each end with colored ribbons to better describe the swing and swirl of the maneuver.
Within this educational greenhouse, Janie was not so much orchid as sturdy milkweed blossom.