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milk•weed



Pronunciation: (milk'wēd"), [key]
—n.
1. any of several plants that secrete a milky juice or latex, esp. those of the genus Asclepias, as A. syriaca. Cf. milkweed family.
2. any of various other plants having a milky juice, as certain spurges.

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