milkweed family

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milkweed family - widely distributed family of herbs and shrubs of the order Gentianales; most with milky juiceAsclepiadaceae, family Asclepiadaceaedicot family, magnoliopsid family - family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germinationGentianales, order Gentianales - an order of dicotyledonous plants having gamopetalous flowers; Gentianaceae; Apocynaceae; Asclepiadaceae; Loganiaceae; Oleaceae; Salvadoraceaeasclepiad - any plant of the family AsclepiadaceaeAsclepias, genus Asclepias - genus of chiefly North American perennial herbs: silkweed; milkweedAraujia, genus Araujia - small genus of South American evergreen vinesgenus Cynancum - genus of perennial tropical African lianasgenus Hoya - large genus of climbing shrubs of Australia and Asia and Polynesiagenus Periploca, Periploca - genus of woody vines of warm regions of the Old Worldgenus Sarcostemma, Sarcostemma - succulent subshrubs or vines; tropical and subtropical India and Africa and Malaysiagenus Stapelia - genus of foul-smelling plants resembling cacti; found from Africa to East Indiagenus Stephanotis - genus of Old World tropical woody vinesgenus Vincetoxicum, Vincetoxicum - genus of chiefly tropical American vines having cordate leaves and large purple or greenish cymose flowers; supposedly having powers as an antidote