milkweed

milkweed is a 8-letter English word with 3 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 18 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 18 · Words With Friends 20 · 3 senses

Definitions

1. noun. 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.
2. noun. annual Eurasian sow thistle with soft spiny leaves and rayed yellow flower heads
3. noun. any of numerous plants of the genus Asclepias having milky juice and pods that split open releasing seeds with downy tufts

   Synonyms: silkweed

Synonyms

silkweed

Common word forms

milkweeds

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