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