Usually means: Plant, crucial for monarch butterflies.
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  1. milkweed: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. milkweed: Merriam-Webster
  3. milkweed: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. milkweed: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. milkweed: Collins English Dictionary
  6. milkweed: Vocabulary.com
  7. Milkweed, milkweed: Wordnik
  8. milkweed: Wiktionary
  9. milkweed: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. milkweed: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. milkweed: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. milkweed: Dictionary.com
  13. milkweed: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Milkweed (disambiguation), Milkweed (novel), Milkweed: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Milkweed: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. milkweed: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. milkweed: Rhymezone
  18. Milkweed: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. milkweed: FreeDictionary.org
  20. milkweed: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. milkweed: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. milkweed: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. milkweed: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. milkweed: Medical dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Milkweed: Botanical Name listing of Plants
  2. A Modern Herbal, 1931, by Mrs. M. Grieve (No longer online)

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  1. milkweed: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (milkweed)

noun:  Any of several plants that have a milky sap and have pods that split to release seeds with silky tufts.
noun:  Principally of the genus Asclepias in order Gentianales, family Apocynaceae
noun:  Also of the genus Calotropis in order Gentianales, family Apocynaceae
noun:  Euphorbia peplus and Euphorbia heterophylla, in order Malpighiales.
noun:  A monarch butterfly (Danaus spp).

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