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noun

  • Any of numerous plants of the genus Asclepias having milky juice and pods that split open releasing seeds with downy tufts.
  • Annual Eurasian sow thistle with soft spiny leaves and rayed yellow flower heads.
by WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
(n.) Any plant of the genera Asclepias and Acerates, abounding in a milky juice, and having its seed attached to a long silky down; silkweed. The name is also applied to several other plants with a milky juice, as to several kinds of spurge.
by Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary