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(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.

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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Milkweed'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​m/milkweed.html. 1828.
 
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