milkweeds
- plural of milkweed.
Example Sentences
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“Planting milkweeds in your garden is great,” she says.
From National Geographic ● Dec. 14, 2023
Since the 1990s, the use of increasingly sophisticated chemical herbicides that kill everything but the crops genetically engineered to resist them has essentially “targeted milkweeds for elimination,” he said.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 8, 2023
Goldfarb cites the example of milkweeds, the exclusive feeding plant for monarch butterfly caterpillars.
From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2023
There are other native milkweeds, but they are typically harder to find.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2023
The caterpillars issue from the eggs, feed on the milkweed, transform to chrysalids; then the butterflies issue and continue the northward flight, stopping to lay eggs farther north on other milkweeds.
From Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America
