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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)
n
1: genus of chiefly North American perennial herbs: silkweed; milkweed [syn: Asclepias, genus Asclepias]
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
Asclepias As*cle"pi*as, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?, named from Asclepios or Aesculapius.] (Bot.) A genus of plants including the milkweed, swallowwort, and some other species having medicinal properties. Asclepias butterfly (Zo["o]l.), a large, handsome, red and black butterfly (Danais Archippus), found in both hemispheres. It feeds on plants of the genus Asclepias.
