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Asclepias  n.  (Bot.) A genus of plants including the milkweed, swallowwort, and some other species having medicinal properties.
Asclepias butterfly (Zool.), a large, handsome, red and black butterfly (Danais Archippus), found in both hemispheres. It feeds on plants of the genus Asclepias.






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"Asclepias" Quotes from Famous Books



... milk and honey," into the possession of which the children of Israel entered after their long wandering in the wilderness (462. II. 696). Of the ancient Hindu god Agni, Letourneau (100. 315) observes: "After being for a long time fed upon melted butter and the alcoholic liquor from the acid asclepias, the sacred Soma, he first became a glorious child, then a metaphysical divinity, a mediator living in the fathers and living again in the sons." It was the divine Soma that, like the nectar of the Greeks, the elixirs of the Scandinavians, ...
— The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought • Alexander F. Chamberlain

... oppressed by hunger, when in a forest, ate of the leaves of the Arka (Asclepias gigantea). And his eyes being affected by the pungent, acrimonious, crude, and saline properties of the leaves which he had eaten, he became blind. And as he was crawling about, he fell into a pit. And upon his not returning that ...
— The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 • Kisari Mohan Ganguli



Words linked to "Asclepias" :   Asclepias albicans, Asclepias meadii, Asclepiadaceae, Asclepias verticillata, silkweed, magnoliopsid genus, milkweed, Asclepias exaltata, milkweed family, Asclepias tuberosa, dicot genus, Asclepias curassavica



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