Found 2 items, similar to Milkweed.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: milkweed
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]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Milkweed
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. Its leaves are a favorite food source for the larvae
of the monarch butterfly.
[1913 Webster]