milkweed
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1. annual Eurasian sow thistle with soft spiny leaves and rayed yellow flower heads (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | milk thistle, sow thistle, |
| definition | : | any of several Old World coarse prickly-leaved shrubs and subshrubs having milky juice and yellow flowers; widely naturalized; often noxious weeds in cultivated soil (noun.plant) |
2. any of numerous plants of the genus Asclepias having milky juice and pods that split open releasing seeds with downy tufts (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | herb, herbaceous plant, |
| definition | : | a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | asclepias albicans, white milkweed, |
| definition | : | tall herb with leafless white waxy stems and whitish starlike flowers; southwestern United States (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | asclepias curassavica, blood flower, swallowwort, |
| definition | : | tropical herb having orange-red flowers followed by pods suggesting a swallow with outspread wings; a weed throughout the tropics (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | asclepias exaltata, poke milkweed, |
| definition | : | milkweed of the eastern United States with leaves resembling those of pokeweed (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | asclepias incarnata, swamp milkweed, |
| definition | : | densely branching perennial of the eastern United States with white to crimson or purple flowers (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | asclepia meadii, asclepias meadii, mead's milkweed, |
| definition | : | milkweed of central North America; a threatened species (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | asclepias purpurascens, purple silkweed, |
| definition | : | perennial of eastern North America having pink-purple flowers (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | asclepias speciosa, showy milkweed, |
| definition | : | milkweed of southern North America having large starry purple and pink flowers (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | asclepias subverticillata, horsetail milkweed, poison milkweed, |
| definition | : | milkweed of southwestern United States and Mexico; poisonous to livestock (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | asclepias tuberosa, butterfly weed, chigger flower, chiggerflower, indian paintbrush, orange milkweed, pleurisy root, tuber root, |
| definition | : | erect perennial of eastern and southern United States having showy orange flowers (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | asclepias verticillata, whorled milkweed, |
| definition | : | milkweed of the eastern United States with narrow leaves in whorls and greenish-white flowers (noun.plant) |
| member meronym | : | asclepias, genus asclepias, |
| definition | : | genus of chiefly North American perennial herbs: silkweed; milkweed (noun.plant) |
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