单词 | silkweed |
释义 | silkweed (once / 537242 pages) n WORD FAMILY silkweed USAGE EXAMPLESTheir lines were made of the tough, fibrous, silken bark of the variety of milkweed or silkweed, already mentioned. Clark, Galen, Indians of the Yosemite Valley and...(2010) n any of numerous plants of the genus Asclepias having milky juice and pods that split open releasing seeds with downy tufts Syn|Hypo|Hyper milkweed Asclepias albicans, white milkweed tall herb with leafless white waxy stems and whitish starlike flowers; southwestern United States Asclepias curassavica, blood flower, swallowworttropical herb having orange-red flowers followed by pods suggesting a swallow with outspread wings; a weed throughout the tropics Asclepias exaltata, poke milkweedmilkweed of the eastern United States with leaves resembling those of pokeweed Asclepias incarnata, swamp milkweeddensely branching perennial of the eastern United States with white to crimson or purple flowers Asclepia meadii, Asclepias meadii, Mead's milkweedmilkweed of central North America; a threatened species Asclepias purpurascens, purple silkweedperennial of eastern North America having pink-purple flowers Asclepias speciosa, showy milkweedmilkweed of southern North America having large starry purple and pink flowers Asclepias subverticillata, horsetail milkweed, poison milkweedmilkweed of southwestern United States and Mexico; poisonous to livestock Asclepias tuberosa, Indian paintbrush, butterfly weed, chigger flower, chiggerflower, orange milkweed, pleurisy root, tuber rooterect perennial of eastern and southern United States having showy orange flowers Asclepias verticillata, whorled milkweedmilkweed of the eastern United States with narrow leaves in whorls and greenish-white flowers herb, herbaceous plant a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests |
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