noun
any of numerous plants of the genus Asclepias having milky juice and pods that split open releasing seeds with downy tufts
• Syn: ↑milkweed
• Hypernyms: ↑herb, ↑herbaceous plant
• Hyponyms:
↑white milkweed, ↑Asclepias albicans, ↑blood flower, ↑swallowwort, ↑Asclepias curassavica, ↑poke milkweed, ↑Asclepias exaltata, ↑swamp milkweed, ↑Asclepias incarnata, ↑Mead's milkweed, ↑Asclepias meadii, ↑Asclepia meadii, ↑purple silkweed, ↑Asclepias purpurascens, ↑showy milkweed, ↑Asclepias speciosa, ↑poison milkweed, ↑horsetail milkweed, ↑Asclepias subverticillata, ↑butterfly weed, ↑orange milkweed, ↑chigger flower, ↑chiggerflower, ↑pleurisy root, ↑tuber root, ↑Indian paintbrush, ↑Asclepias tuberosa, ↑whorled milkweed, ↑Asclepias verticillata
• Member Holonyms: ↑Asclepias, ↑genus Asclepias
Useful english dictionary. 2012.