HyperDic: white_milkweed

English > 1 sense of the expression *white milkweed*:
NOUN	plant	white milkweed, Asclepias albicans	tall herb with leafless white waxy stems and whitish starlike flowers

English > *white milkweed*: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaning	tall herb with leafless white waxy stems and whitish starlike flowers; southwestern United States.
Synonym	Asclepias albicans
Broader	milkweed, silkweed	Any of numerous plants of the genus Asclepias having milky juice and pods that split open releasing seeds with downy tufts