Definition of milkwort Milkwort
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What does milkwort mean?
WordNet
NounPlural: milkworts |
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| milkwort - any of various plants of the genus Polygala | ||
| subshrub, suffrutex low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base | ||
| genus polygala, polygala type genus of the Polygalaceae: milkwort; senega; snakeroot | ||
| polygala alba, senega perennial bushy herb of central and southern United States having white flowers with green centers and often purple crest; similar to Seneca snakeroot | ||
| candyweed, orange milkwort, polygala lutea, yellow bachelor's button, yellow milkwort bog plant of pine barrens of southeastern United States having spikes of irregular yellow-orange flowers | ||
| bird-on-the-wing, flowering wintergreen, fringed polygala, gaywings, polygala paucifolia common trailing perennial milkwort of eastern North America having leaves like wintergreen and usually rosy-purple flowers with winged sepals | ||
| polygala senega, seneca snakeroot, senega root, senega snakeroot, seneka snakeroot, senga root eastern North American plant having a terminal cluster of small white flowers and medicinal roots | ||
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Wiktionary 
- milkwort (Noun)
Any of more than 500 species of flowering plant s of the genus Polygala that are used as a food source by the larvae of some members of the Lepidoptera order.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- milkwort (n.)
A genus of plants (Polygala) of many species. The common European P. vulgaris was supposed to have the power of producing a flow of milk in nurses.
Part of speech
🔤- milkwort, noun, singular of milkworts.
