milkweed plant

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• MILKWEED — MILKWEED, plant of the Euphorbiaceae family. Many genera comprising scores of species are found in Israel. Attempts have been made to identify them with plants mentioned in the Bible, but such attempts are without foundation. One plant mentioned… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• milkweed bug — noun an insect, of the order Hemiptera, that mostly feeds on the seeds and tissue of the milkweed plant (Asclepias) …   Wiktionary

• Milkweed (disambiguation) — Milkweed may refer to: Any plant from the genus Asclepias Sonchus oleraceus Milkweed (novel), a children s novel by author Jerry Spinelli Milkweed Editions, an independent publishing company based in Minneapolis, MN This disambiguation page lists …   Wikipedia

• 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… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Milkweed butterfly — For the mythological fifty daughters of Danaus, see Danaides. Milkweed butterflies Three Milkweed butterflies Scientific classification Kingdom …   Wikipedia

• milkweed family — the plant family Asclepiadaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and vines having simple, opposite or whorled leaves, usually milky juice, umbellike clusters of small flowers, and long pods that split open to release tufted, airborne… …   Universalium

• milkweed family — noun widely distributed family of herbs and shrubs of the order Gentianales; most with milky juice • Syn: ↑Asclepiadaceae, ↑family Asclepiadaceae • Derivationally related forms: ↑asclepiadaceous (for: ↑Asclepiadaceae) …   Useful english dictionary

• milkweed floss — ▪ seed fibre       seed fibre of Asclepias syriaca, or common milkweed, and A. incarnata, or butterfly weed, both of which are plants of the Asclepiadaceae family and grow in North America. The soft, buoyant, lustrous floss is yellowish white in… …   Universalium

• milkweed — milk·weed milk .wēd n any of various plants that secrete latex esp any plant of the genus Asclepias (family Asclepiadaceae, the milkweed family) including several whose dried roots were formerly used medicinally * * * milk·weed (milkґwēd)… …   Medical dictionary

• milkweed — noun 1》 a herbaceous American plant with milky sap. [Genus Asclepias.] 2》 (also milkweed butterfly) another term for monarch (in sense 2) …   English new terms dictionary

• milkweed — milk|weed [ˈmılkwi:d] n [U] a common North American plant that produces a bitter white substance when its stem is broken …   Dictionary of contemporary English