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Milkweed  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 kinds of spurge. Its leaves are a favorite food source for the larvae of the monarch butterfly.






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"Milkweed" Quotes from Famous Books



... and idly watched the limpid little stream flowing beneath his feet. Stretching into the swale, it came creeping between an impenetrable wall of magnificent wild flowers, vines, and ferns. Milkweed, goldenrod, ironwort, fringed gentians, cardinal-flowers, and turtle-head stood on the very edge of the creek, and every flower of them had a double in the water. Wild clematis crowned with snow the heads of trees scattered here and there ...
— Freckles • Gene Stratton-Porter

... development within the cocoon is quite rapid; and the adult form hatches out in a few weeks, for example, the cabbage-butterfly, monarch or milkweed butterfly, and tussock-moth. For this reason these are preferable for study by Form I pupils. In April the cage should be placed in the school-room, that the pupils may observe the emergence of the insects and the spreading ...
— Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study • Ontario Ministry of Education



Words linked to "Milkweed" :   Mead's milkweed, horsetail milkweed, Asclepias verticillata, Asclepias subverticillata, Indian paintbrush, Asclepias incarnata, swamp milkweed, Asclepias curassavica, Asclepias purpurascens, purple silkweed, milk thistle, pleurisy root, milkweed butterfly, Asclepias meadii, marsh milkweed, poison milkweed, chiggerflower, whorled milkweed, silkweed, swallowwort, Asclepias tuberosa, white milkweed, sow thistle, Asclepia meadii, herbaceous plant, orange milkweed, Asclepias albicans, butterfly weed, tuber root, Sonchus oleraceus, poke milkweed, herb, showy milkweed, genus Asclepias, Asclepias exaltata, Asclepias speciosa



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