| Meaning | widely distributed family of herbs and shrubs of the order Gentianales; most with milky juice. |
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| Synonyms | family Asclepiadaceae, milkweed family |
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| Member of | Gentianales, order Gentianales | An order of dicotyledonous plants having gamopetalous flowers |
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| Members | Araujia, genus Araujia | small genus of South American evergreen vines |
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| Asclepias, genus Asclepias | genus of chiefly North American perennial herbs |
| Periploca, genus Periploca | genus of woody vines of warm regions / regions of the Old World |
| Sarcostemma, genus Sarcostemma | succulent subshrubs or vines |
| Vincetoxicum, genus Vincetoxicum | genus of chiefly tropical American vines having cordate leaves and large purple or greenish cymose flowers |
| asclepiad | Any plant of the family Asclepiadaceae |
| genus Cynancum | genus of perennial tropical African lianas |
| genus Hoya | large genus of climbing shrubs of Australia and Asia and Polynesia |
| genus Stapelia | genus of foul-smelling plants resembling cacti |
| genus Stephanotis | genus of Old World tropical woody vines |
| Broader | dicot family, magnoliopsid family | family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination |
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| Spanish | asclepiadáceas |
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| Catalan | Asclepiadaceae |
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| Adjectives | asclepiadaceous | of or relating to plants of the milkweed family |
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