Definition of milkweed in English:
milkweed
noun ˈmɪlkwiːdˈmɪlkwid
1mass noun A herbaceous American plant with milky sap, some kinds of which attract butterflies or yield a variety of useful products.
Genus Asclepias, family Asclepiadaceae
- Monarchs spend the warmer months in regions west of the Rocky Mountains where milkweed (the sole plant their larvae eat) has been historically abundant.
- Serious cuts could be treated with the sap of red milkweed, and a beverage brewed from the plant called mouse's tail reportedly lowered blood pressure.
- Sedges, bluejoint grass, boneset, and swamp milkweed dominate the community.
- All monarch caterpillars eat milkweed, a plant with an acrid latex containing potent cardiac glycosides, causing birds who eat the butterflies to vomit and learn to avoid them.
- This can be an effective method of managing hemp dogbane and common milkweed.
- The larvae absorb toxins from their food plant, milkweed.
- For instance, the beautiful Monarch larvae prefer only milkweed!
- Volunteers will also be planting milkweed, which monarchs need to reproduce, and trying to create spawning sanctuaries and ‘no-take’ reserves for horseshoe crabs.
- Illinois bundle flower, butterfly milkweed, compass grass, and partridge peas nestle in another 20-acre plot.
- Also known as milkweed and spurge, Euphorbia belongs to an incredibly varied genus that contains over 2,000 species including the Christmas favourite, poinsettia.
- Endowed with an insatiable appetite for milkweed, and almost always in close proximity to the plant, these larvae eventually turn into butterflies and continue flying north.
- Yet, adult female butterflies choose these particular plants (monarch moms must have milkweed!) on which to lay their eggs.
- Some of the primary plants for butterfly larvae include: aspen, alfalfa, clover, nettle, pearly everlasting, milkweed, grasses, hackberry, parsley, vetch, and willow.
- I need information on the milkweed that attracts monarch butterflies.
- They put out tubes holding cuttings of milkweed stems with two leaves, whole potted milkweed plants, and microscope slides coated with glycerin.
- ‘Common milkweed and other closely related plant species are the sole food source of monarch larvae, or caterpillars,’ he says.
- Plants here include prairie rose, nodding onion, gray-headed coneflower, butterfly weed, green milkweed, hoary puccoon, and even eastern prickly pear cactus.
- Both adults and larvae live on plants frequented by aphids, including roses, oleander, milkweed and broccoli.
- As milkweed dies, surviving butterflies begin their long, unwavering flights back to the sheltered groves that safeguarded their ancestors.
- You can always camouflage milkweed by tucking one or two plants behind a couple of lovely buddleias.
2
another term for monarch (sense 2)- This is sometimes called the ‘milkweed butterfly’ because its larvae dine exclusively on this plant.
Definition of milkweed in US English:
milkweed
nounˈmilkwēdˈmɪlkwid
1A herbaceous American plant with milky sap. Some kinds attract butterflies, some yield a variety of useful products, and some are grown as ornamentals.
Genus Asclepias, family Asclepiadaceae: several species, in particular the common milkweed (A. syriaca)
- As milkweed dies, surviving butterflies begin their long, unwavering flights back to the sheltered groves that safeguarded their ancestors.
- I need information on the milkweed that attracts monarch butterflies.
- This can be an effective method of managing hemp dogbane and common milkweed.
- Monarchs spend the warmer months in regions west of the Rocky Mountains where milkweed (the sole plant their larvae eat) has been historically abundant.
- Serious cuts could be treated with the sap of red milkweed, and a beverage brewed from the plant called mouse's tail reportedly lowered blood pressure.
- Volunteers will also be planting milkweed, which monarchs need to reproduce, and trying to create spawning sanctuaries and ‘no-take’ reserves for horseshoe crabs.
- Both adults and larvae live on plants frequented by aphids, including roses, oleander, milkweed and broccoli.
- Illinois bundle flower, butterfly milkweed, compass grass, and partridge peas nestle in another 20-acre plot.
- You can always camouflage milkweed by tucking one or two plants behind a couple of lovely buddleias.
- They put out tubes holding cuttings of milkweed stems with two leaves, whole potted milkweed plants, and microscope slides coated with glycerin.
- All monarch caterpillars eat milkweed, a plant with an acrid latex containing potent cardiac glycosides, causing birds who eat the butterflies to vomit and learn to avoid them.
- Sedges, bluejoint grass, boneset, and swamp milkweed dominate the community.
- For instance, the beautiful Monarch larvae prefer only milkweed!
- Endowed with an insatiable appetite for milkweed, and almost always in close proximity to the plant, these larvae eventually turn into butterflies and continue flying north.
- Yet, adult female butterflies choose these particular plants (monarch moms must have milkweed!) on which to lay their eggs.
- Some of the primary plants for butterfly larvae include: aspen, alfalfa, clover, nettle, pearly everlasting, milkweed, grasses, hackberry, parsley, vetch, and willow.
- Plants here include prairie rose, nodding onion, gray-headed coneflower, butterfly weed, green milkweed, hoary puccoon, and even eastern prickly pear cactus.
- Also known as milkweed and spurge, Euphorbia belongs to an incredibly varied genus that contains over 2,000 species including the Christmas favourite, poinsettia.
- ‘Common milkweed and other closely related plant species are the sole food source of monarch larvae, or caterpillars,’ he says.
- The larvae absorb toxins from their food plant, milkweed.
2
another term for monarch butterfly- This is sometimes called the ‘milkweed butterfly’ because its larvae dine exclusively on this plant.