butterfly weed

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noun

Also called orange milkweed. a North American milkweed, Asclepias tuberosa, having clusters of bright orange flowers.

an erect North American plant, Gaura coccinea, of the evening primrose family, having wandlike spikes of white to pink flowers turning red with age.

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Origin of butterfly weed

An Americanism dating back to 1810–20

Words nearby butterfly weed

butterfly roof, butterfly-shell clam, butterfly table, butterfly valve, butterfly wedge, butterfly weed, butterine, butter knife, Buttermere, buttermilk, buttermilk sky

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How to use butterfly weed in a sentence

The pale, baby-faced, red-cheeked rapper is furiously puffing away at a hastily-made blunt crammed with low-grade weed.
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Antoine himself had recently been arrested on a six-year-old warrant for a dime bag of weed.
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Maurice, a 22-year-old father, says the cops planted weed on him after he was arrested once.
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“When you become a peshmerga your life becomes like a butterfly,” she said.
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So, to commemorate her 75th birthday, the two got matching butterfly tattoos on their wrists.
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They are so rich in harmony, so weird, so wild, that when you hear them you are like a sea-weed cast upon the bosom of the ocean.
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The weed growing over every water, and at the bank of the river, shall be pulled up before all grass.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various
Lamb fills his case, and lights this the ne plus ultra of a soothing weed.
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We should infer also from some of the early stage plays, that the "players" used the weed even when acting their parts.
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In no part of the world is smoking so common as in South America; here all classes and all ages use the weed.
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British Dictionary definitions for butterfly weed

butterfly weed

noun

a North American asclepiadaceous plant, Asclepias tuberosa (or A. decumbens), having flat-topped clusters of bright orange flowersAlso called: orange milkweed, pleurisy root

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