silkweed

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silkweed - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Silkweed \Silk"weed`\, n. (Bot.)
     Any plant of the genera Asclepias and Acerates whose seed
     vessels contain a long, silky down; milkweed.
     [1913 Webster]

silkweed - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  silkweed
      n 1: any of numerous plants of the genus Asclepias having milky
           juice and pods that split open releasing seeds with downy
           tufts [syn: milkweed, silkweed]