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  • noun Plural form of milkwort.

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Examples

  • First the two most insect-prone families – the economically important Fabales (including the legumes and milkworts) and the Compositae (the daisy or sunflower family) – will be moved into the new wing.

    Kew Gardens: 'Plants are not just beautiful. They help us to survive' 2010

  • (_Sapindaceæ_), the maples (_Aceraceæ_), and the milkworts (_Polygalaceæ_), have several representatives in the northern United States.

    Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell

  • I am perfectly sure that it is wiser to use plain short words than obscure long ones; but not in the least sure that I am doing the best that can be done for my pupils, in classing swallows with owls, or milkworts with violets.

    Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds John Ruskin 1859

  • Lucias and blue-flushing milkworts out of common human neighbourhood, to live recluse lives with the memories of the abbots of Cluny, and pastors of

    Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859

  • The forget-me-nots and milkworts are singularly beautiful here, but there is quite as much variety in English fields as in these, as long as one does not climb much ” and I'm very lazy, compared to what I used to be,”

    The Life of John Ruskin Collingwood, W G 1911

  • The forget-me-nots and milkworts are singularly beautiful here, but there is quite as much variety in English fields as in these, as long as one does not climb much -- and I'm very lazy, compared to what I used to be, "

    The Life of John Ruskin 1893

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