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ˈsilkweed Bot.
Also silk-weed.
[f. silk n. + weed n.]
1. U.S. = milkweed 2.
1784Mem. Amer. Acad. I. 424 The seeds are contained in large pods, and are crowned with white down,..resembling silk, which has occasioned the name of Silk⁓weed. 1814[see milkweed 2]. 1846–50A. Wood Class-bk. Bot. 458 Asclepias cornuti. Decaisne (A. Syriaca, Linn{ddd}). Common Silkweed. Ibid. 459 A. phytolaccȯīdes, Poke-leaved Silkweed. 1857A. Gray First Lessons Bot. (1866) 135 A coma, or tuft of long and soft hairs, such as we find in the Milkweed or Silkweed. 1940J. Stuart Trees of Heaven 48 There is the musty smell of ironweeds, milkweeds, silkweeds,..and bull grass on the lazy wind.
2. A plant of the genus Conferva.
1857Henfrey Bot. 450 Confervoideæ, Silk-weeds... Plants..of bright green, or more rarely (often temporarily) red colour. 1875Encycl. Brit. I. 508/2 This is seen in Confervæ, such as the green matter often seen in ponds, and called silk-weed. |