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milkweed family

noun

  1. 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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Stephanotis, stef-a-nō′tis, n. a genus of shrubby twining plants of the milkweed family.

Would you think that this gay little beggar was a member of the milkweed family?

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