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milkweed family
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noun
the plant family Asclepiadaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and vines having simple, opposite or whorled leaves, usually milky juice, umbellike clusters of small flowers, and long pods that split open to release tufted, airborne seeds, and including the anglepod, butterfly weed, milkweed, stephanotis, and wax plant.
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Words nearby milkweed family
milk vetch, milkweed, milkweed beetle, milkweed bug, milkweed butterfly, milkweed family, milk-white, milkwood, milkwort, milky, milky disease
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How to use milkweed family in a sentence
Would you think that this gay little beggar was a member of the milkweed family?
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