milkweed

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  1. noun Any of numerous plants of the genus Asclepias, having milky juice, usually opposite leaves, variously colored flowers grouped in umbels, and pods that split open to release seeds with downy tufts. Also called silkweed.

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  • Suddenly the plant was a milkweed, with several full ripe pods. —  Question Quest
  • There was an assortment of pie plants, milkweed, and cookies. —  Piers Anthony - [Xanth 29] - Pet Peeve (2005)
  • Nylon stockings from coal and air, rubber from gasoline and milkweed, alcohol and blood plasma from orange peels, plastics from all sorts of waste plant products—and now Norwegian experimenters have out-ersatzed the Nazis. —  June, 1943
  • One had hair as white as milkweed, upraised hands gnarled with age; old Bianca, who had told my fortune true. —  Jacqueline Carey - Kushiel 02 - Kushiel's Chosen
  • Pastures had been choked with milkweed, and monarch butterflies had filled the air with black and orange But farmers had destroyed the milkweed on which monarch butterfly larvae fed, to make room for crops. —  Analog Science Fiction and Fact, January 2002
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