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as·cle·pi·as \əˈsklēpēəs, aˈ-\ noun Etymology: New Latin, from Latin, swallowwort (Cynanchum vincetoxicum), from Greek asklēpias, from Asklēpios, physician-hero of Greek myth sometimes worshiped as god of healing 1. capitalized : a genus (the type of the family Asclepiadaceae) of perennial herbs found chiefly in No. America with flowers having a corona of five concave hoods each of which bears a slender horn — see butterfly weed, milkweed 2. -es : a plant of the genus Asclepias 3. -es a. : the dried root of the butterfly weed formerly used as a diaphoretic and expectorant — called also pleurisy root b. : the root of the swamp milkweed used similarly |