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单词 milkweed
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milkweedn.

Brit. /ˈmɪlkwiːd/, U.S. /ˈmɪlkˌwid/
Forms: see milk n.1 and weed n.1
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: milk n.1, weed n.1
Etymology: < milk n.1 + weed n.1 Compare Middle Dutch melcwiet (Dutch melkwied ), Old Saxon melkwid , both in sense 2.The plants so named (senses 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) are all characterized by a milky sap.
1. Any of various mostly small-leaved kinds of spurge; esp. sun spurge, Euphorbia helioscopia, petty spurge, E. peplus, (U.S.) flowering spurge, E. corollata, and (Caribbean) Chamaesyce hirta. Now British, U.S., and Caribbean regional.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Euphorbiaceae (spurges and allies) > [noun] > particular type of spurge
petty spurge1578
milkweed1592
spurge1715
Macaranga1846
1592 Thomas's Dict. (ed. 3) at Lactaria Hearbe tithymale, spurge or milke-weede.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Milk-Weed, and Milk-Wort several sorts of Herbs.
1828 C. S. Rafinesque Med. Flora U.S. I. 181 Euphorbia corollata... Milkweed.
1878 H. M. Stanley Through Dark Continent I. vi. 139 The villages..are surrounded by hedges of euphorbias, milk-weed.
1954 A. A. Forsyth Brit. Poisonous Plants 68 The petty spurge, sometimes known as ‘milk-weed’, has caused illness and losses among horses and cattle in Australia.
1972 C. D. Adams Flowering Plants Jamaica 429 (note) The common name Milkweed is given to all the smaller-leaved herbaceous species of Euphorbia comprising the subgenus Chamaesyce.
1999 Tennessean (Nexis) 18 Mar. 4 Many varieties of euphorbia, also known as milkweed or spurge..are on the market, from a 10-inch or smaller plant to ones 36-40 inches tall.
2. Any of several common species of sowthistle (genus Sonchus). Now British regional and Irish English.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Euphorbiaceae (spurges and allies) > [noun]
catapucec1386
Euphorbiaa1398
spurgea1400
tithymala1400
faitour's grassc1440
cat's-grassc1450
nettlewort1523
essell1527
lint-spurge1548
sea wartwort1548
spurge thyme1548
line-spurge1562
myrtle spurge1562
sun spurge1562
wolf's-milk1575
cypress tithymal1578
devil's milk1578
mercury1578
sea-spurge1597
sun tithymal1597
welcome to our house1597
wood-spurge1597
Euphorbium1606
milk-reed1611
milkwort1640
sun-turning spurge1640
spurge-wort1647
caper-bush1673
Portland spurge1715
milkweed1736
Medusa's head1760
little-good1808
welcome-home-husband1828
three-seeded mercury1846
cat's-milk1861
turnsole1863–79
mole-tree1864
snow-on-the-mountain1873
seven sisters1879
caper-plant1882
asthma herb1887
mountain snow1889
crown of thorns1890
olifants melkbos1898
the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > weed > [noun] > sow thistle
thowthistlea700
sow-thistlea1250
swine thistlea1350
milk thistlec1450
Saint Mary's seeda1500
Sonchus1558
hare's lettuce1597
smooth thistle1633
milkweed1736
tare-thistle1753
cow-thistle1832
puha1843
rauriki1848
1736 R. Ainsworth Thes. Linguæ Latinæ Milk weed, Sonchos vel sonchus.
1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) III. 675 Sonchus..oleraceus... Sowthistle...Milkweed.
1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Milk-Weed, Sonchus oleraceus.
1904 N. L. Colgan Flora County Dublin Suppl. 304 Melsh-weed, Milk-weed, in North Dublin all three species of Sow-thistle, S[onchus] oleraceus, S. asper, and S. arvensis, are spoken of by one or other of these names.
1955 G. Grigson Englishman's Flora 392 Sow Thistle... Milkweed, Som[erset].
3. U.S. Any of various wild lettuces (genus Lactuca).
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Compositae (composite plants) > [noun] > wild lettuce
wriðela1325
wild lettuce1382
green endive1548
horse-thistle1597
milkweed1785
1785 M. Cutler in Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts & Sci. 1 475 Lactuca,..Wild Lettuce. Milkweed.
1895 Farmers' Bull. (U.S. Dept. Agric.) No. 28. 27 Milkweed, wild lettuce. Lactuca scariola.
1943 W. C. L. Muenscher Weeds 506 Lactuca pulchella, Milkweed.
4. In full marsh milkweed. (a) British milk parsley, Peucedanum palustre (now rare); (b) U.S. joe-pye weed, Eupatorium purpureum.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Umbelliferae (umbellifers) > [noun] > hog's fennel and allies
swine's fennel?a1425
swine's finkle?a1450
hog's fennel1525
dog fennel1526
harstrang1562
mountain parsley1578
sow-fennel1578
sulphurwort1578
much good1597
rock parsley1597
milky parsley1640
brimstone-wort1678
marsh milkweed1787
milk parsley1787
sea sulphur-wort1807
sea sulphur-weed1850
sulphur-weed1850
sea hog's-fennel1855
1787 W. Withering Bot. Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 2) I. 280 Selinum. Milkweed.
1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) II. 293 Selinum sylvestre... Marsh Milkweed. Wild Parsley.
1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants 86/1 Milk-parsley, or Milk-weed, Peucedanum palustre.
1892 Jrnl. Amer. Folk-lore 5 98 Eupatorium purpureum..marsh milkweed.
1940 W. N. Clute Amer. Plant Names (ed. 3) 82 E[upatorium] purpureum, Joe-Pye-weed..marsh-milkweed.
1971 A. Krochmal Guide Medicinal Plants Appalachia 120 Eupatorium purpureum..Marsh milkweed.
5.
a. An American plant of the genus Asclepias (family Asclepiadaceae), the members of which have copious milky sap and seeds plumed with long silky hairs (also called silkweed); esp. A. syriaca of North America and A. curassavica of tropical America. Also: any of several other plants of this family. Frequently with distinguishing word.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Asclepiadaceae (milk-weed and allies) > [noun]
swallowwort1548
Asclepias1578
silken cicely1597
silkweed1784
tame-poison1785
milkweed1814
green milkweed1829
Hoodia1830
asclepiad1859
poke milkweed1890
1814 J. Bigelow Florula Bostoniensis 62 Asclepias Syriaca, Common Silk weed or Milk weed,..is used as a substitute for feathers, fur, cotton, &c.
1829 A. H. Lincoln Familiar Lect. Bot. App. 275 Asclepias..syriaca, (common milkweed).
1848 A. Gray Man. Bot. Northern U.S. 365 Asclepiadaceæ. (Milkweed Fam.)
1869 J. R. Lowell Poet. Wks. 299/2 While Fancy's Cushin'..Makes the hard bench ez soft ez milkweed-down.
1923 W. Cather Lost Lady 17 The silvery milkweed was just coming on.
1941 E. C. Jaeger Desert Wild Flowers 185 Purple Climbing Milkweed. Funastrum heterophyllum..Rambling Milkweed. Funastrum hirtellum.
1957 L. Eiseley Immense Journey 69 There passed before my eyes the million airy troopers of the milkweed pod.
1993 M. J. Plotkin Tales Shaman's Apprentice ii. 48 He explained that butterflies tend to specialize in a particular group of plants—monarch butterfly caterpillars live mostly on milkweeds, for example.
b. Chiefly U.S. regional. Either of two American plants of the genus Apocynum (family Apocyanaceae), dogbane, A. androsaemifolium, and Indian hemp, A. cannabinum (related to the milkweeds of the family Asclepiadaceae: cf. sense 5a).
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1828 C. S. Rafinesque Med. Flora U.S. I. 49 Apocynum androsemifolium... Milk-weed, Bitter-root, Honey-bloom, [etc.].
1854 J. King Amer. Eclectic Dispensatory 226 Apocynum androsaemifolium... This plant, likewise called Dogsbane, Milk-weed, etc., is found in nearly all parts of the United States.
1971 A. Krochmal Guide Medicinal Plants Appalachia 52 Apocynum cannabinum..Milkweed.
6. In full milkweed butterfly. The monarch, Danaus plexippus.So called because the larvae feed on milkweeds (usually Asclepias, sometimes Apocynum).
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Rhopalocera (butterflies) > [noun] > family Nymphalidae > subfamily Danainae > danais plexippus (monarch)
milkweed butterfly1880
monarch1889
1880 E. Burgess in Anniv. Mem. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 10 In the milkweed butterfly the colon is somewhat pyriform in the female.
1889 Insect Life 1 221 The following is a brief account of a migratory movement of enormous numbers of the common so-called Milk-weed Butterfly.
1906 R. South Butterflies Brit. Isles 107 The actual number of specimens of the Milkweed, or, as it is sometimes called, Monarch butterfly, seen or caught in England..does not much exceed thirty.
1944 R. Matheson Entomol. for Introd. Courses xiv. 316 We have four families of butterflies in North America: Papilionidae..Pieridae..Nymphalidae (the fritillaries, the cresent spots, the anglewings, the sovereigns, the emperors, the meadow browns or satyrs, the milkweeds, and others); Lycænidae.
1972 Country Life 6 Apr. 846/1 The milkweed or monarch butterfly is a denizen of North America.
1992 Trop. Lepidoptera 3 64 The new findings have major evolutionary and taxonomic implications for the milkweed butterflies.

Compounds

In the names of insects that feed on poisonous North American milkweeds, and possess bright warning coloration.
milkweed beetle n. any of several red and black North American longhorn beetles of the genus Tetraopes (family Cerambycidae).
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Phytophaga or Chrysomeloidea > family Cerambycidae > miscellaneous others
sawyer1789
wood-beetle1795
tickler1841
milkweed beetle1842
pine-borer1862
harlequin beetle1865
hickory girdler1869
1842 T. W. Harris Treat. Insects New Eng. 455/2 Milk-weed beetle.
1954 D. J. Borror & D. M. DeLong Introd. Study Insects xxii. 398 T. tetraophthalmus Forster is a common species feeding on milkweed, and is often called the red milkweed beetle.
1985 Sci. Amer. July 96C/1 The chief insect occupants of the milkweed for the rest of the summer are monarch larvae, aphids in intermittent infestations, milkweed beetles (Tetraopes tetraophthalmus) and milkweed bugs (Oncopeltus fasciatus).
milkweed bug n. either of two red and black North American bugs of the family Lygaeidae, Oncopeltus fasciatus and Lygaeus kalmi.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Heteroptera > family Lygaeidae > member of
lygaeid1893
milkweed bug1905
1905 V. L. Kellogg Amer. Insects x. 211 The milkweed-bug, Oncopeltus fasciatus, about ⅔ inch long, orange above with most of head and prothorax except the margins black, and a broad black band across the middle of the fore wings and large black blotch on their tips, is a common showy bug on various species of milkweed.
1972 L. A. Swan & C. S. Papp Common Insects N. Amer. xii. 125 In the Small Milkweed Bug, L. kalmi, the black on the pronotum is separated from the black on the front of the wings.
1985 Sci. Amer. July 90/1 Later in the summer milkweed bugs attack the seeds.
milkweed butterfly n. see sense 6.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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