Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A large genus of North American herbs, natural order Asclepiadaceœ, popularly known as milkweed or silkweed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A genus of plants including the milkweed, swallowwort, and some other species having medicinal properties.
- noun (Zoöl.) a large, handsome, red and black butterfly (
Danais Archippus ), found in both hemispheres. It feeds on plants of the genus Asclepias.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun genus of chiefly North American perennial herbs: silkweed; milkweed
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Examples
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The Asclepias is a butterfly magnet, but mostly it is the Great Spangleds hanging around it.
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The adults can take nectar from many different flowers, but they'll only lay their eggs near Asclepias .
A Flyover Downtown Ralph M. Gardner 2011
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Sigrid Gray , the Battery Conservancy's director of horticulture, said that they were offered seeds to grow milkweed, or Asclepias , the genus upon which monarchs' ability to reproduce depends, but discovered they already had most of them.
A Flyover Downtown Ralph M. Gardner 2011
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Furthermore, the monarch larvae feed on milkweed plants (Asclepias spp.), and thereby acquire the milkweed's cardenaloid poison.
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We stake some things, like the tallest lilies, and prop up the Asclepias with fence pieces.
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‘Jacob Kline’, Asclepias tuberosa started from seed was plunked in a blank space, Ratibidia columnifera seemed a good companion for the butterfly weed and daylilies abound.
Belated Bloom Day Of June-Garden To Jungle In Seven Days « Fairegarden 2010
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The spotting of the Great Spangled Fritillary butterfly coincides with the opening of their favorite treat, the Asclepias tuberosa, butterfly weed.
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Danaus plexippus – monarch butterfly egg, resting on Asclepias syriaca milkweed leaf, Monroe Township, Knox County, Ohio.
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And the Asclepias with bonus butterfly is also wonderful.
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Asclepias tuberosa ‘Hello Yellow’ attracts many friends both human and insect.
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