noun
genus of chiefly North American perennial herbs: silkweed; milkweed
• Syn: ↑genus Asclepias
• Hypernyms: ↑dicot genus, ↑magnoliopsid genus
• Member Holonyms: ↑Asclepiadaceae, ↑family Asclepiadaceae, ↑milkweed family
Useful english dictionary. 2012.