Milkweed
Pronunciation : Milk"weed`
Part of Speech : n.
Definition : Defn: Any plant of the genera Asclepias and Acerates, abounding in a milky juice, and having its seed attached to a long silky down; silkweed. The name is also applied to several other plants with a milky juice, as to several kinds of spurge.
(Bot.)
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913