MILKWEED as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • annual Eurasian sow thistle with soft spiny leaves and rayed yellow flower heads
   Synonym(s)
   • Sonchus oleraceus (what does Sonchus oleraceus mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) milkweed is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • sow thistle (what does sow thistle mean?)
   • milk thistle (what does milk thistle mean?)
2. Meaning
   • any of numerous plants of the genus Asclepias having milky juice and pods that split open releasing seeds with downy tufts
   Synonym(s)
   • silkweed (what does silkweed mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) milkweed is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • herb (what does herb mean?)
   • herbaceous plant (what does herbaceous plant mean?)
   Hyponym(s)
   • white milkweed (what does white milkweed mean?)
   • Asclepias albicans (what does Asclepias albicans mean?)
   • blood flower (what does blood flower mean?)
   • swallowwort (what does swallowwort mean?)
   • Asclepias curassavica (what does Asclepias curassavica mean?)
   • poke milkweed (what does poke milkweed mean?)
   • Asclepias exaltata (what does Asclepias exaltata mean?)
   • swamp milkweed (what does swamp milkweed mean?)
   • Asclepias incarnata (what does Asclepias incarnata mean?)
   • Mead’s milkweed (what does Mead’s milkweed mean?)
   • Asclepias meadii (what does Asclepias meadii mean?)
   • Asclepia meadii (what does Asclepia meadii mean?)
   • purple silkweed (what does purple silkweed mean?)
   • Asclepias purpurascens (what does Asclepias purpurascens mean?)
   • showy milkweed (what does showy milkweed mean?)
   • Asclepias speciosa (what does Asclepias speciosa mean?)
   • poison milkweed (what does poison milkweed mean?)
   • horsetail milkweed (what does horsetail milkweed mean?)
   • Asclepias subverticillata (what does Asclepias subverticillata mean?)
   • butterfly weed (what does butterfly weed mean?)
   • orange milkweed (what does orange milkweed mean?)
   • chigger flower (what does chigger flower mean?)
   • chiggerflower (what does chiggerflower mean?)
   • pleurisy root (what does pleurisy root mean?)
   • tuber root (what does tuber root mean?)
   • Indian paintbrush (what does Indian paintbrush mean?)
   • Asclepias tuberosa (what does Asclepias tuberosa mean?)
   • whorled milkweed (what does whorled milkweed mean?)
   • Asclepias verticillata (what does Asclepias verticillata mean?)