meaning of milkweed
1. 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.
2. annual Eurasian sow thistle with soft spiny leaves and rayed yellow flower heads
Related Words
milkweed | milkweed butterfly | milkweed family |