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]