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单词 butterfly weed
释义

butterfly weed

noun

: a North American milkweed (Asclepias tuberosa) with showy orange flowers borne on erect leafy stems

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Designed in collaboration with Geauga Park District and DERU Landscape Architects, the park will incorporate native perennials and shrubs such as butterfly weed, aster, purple coneflower, goldenrod, bluestem and Joe Pye weed. cleveland, 8 June 2022 Nineteen types of prairie plants are available this year and include favorites like butterfly weed, big bluestem, leadplant, purple prairie clover and more. Beacon-news Staff, chicagotribune.com, 8 Apr. 2022 The native milkweeds for our area include the antelope horn, the green milkweed and butterfly weed (Asclepias tuberosa). Calvin Finch, San Antonio Express-News, 11 Mar. 2022 Feel the satiny fluff of butterfly weed gone to seed and the silky tufts of shoulder-high bushy bluestem. Chadd Scott, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2021 Milkweed exists in the form of several species native to areas around San Antonio including antelope horn, butterfly weed, common milkweed and green milkweed. Calvin Finch, San Antonio Express-News, 4 June 2021 Though there are many types of milkweed, at Saturday’s event two kinds will be available — butterfly weed and rose milkweed. Yadira Sanchez Olson, chicagotribune.com, 23 Apr. 2021 In his garden shed, O’Donnell set up a mesh enclosure to protect the larvae and fed them stalks of milkweed and butterfly weed. BostonGlobe.com, 23 Apr. 2021 The pollinator garden is 5 feet by 12 feet and now contains monarda (bee balm), crocosmia, delphinium, foxglove, lupine, phlox, columbine, stiff goldenrod, liatris, Black-eyed Susan, and butterfly weed. Judy Hake, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 17 Apr. 2021 See More

Word History

First Known Use

1798, in the meaning defined above

Medical Definition

butterfly weed

noun

-ˌwēd How to pronounce butterfly weed (audio)
: an orange-flowered milkweed of the genus Asclepias (A. tuberosa) of eastern North America that is a source of asclepias

called also pleurisy root

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