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purple milkweed

purple milkweed noun: asclepias purpurascens, native to the central and midwestern United States.

Noun

purple milkweed (countable and uncountable, plural purple milkweeds)

  1. Asclepias purpurascens, native to the central and midwestern United States.
  2. Asclepias cordifolia, native to the west coast of the United States, the heartleaf milkweed.

Forms of purple milkweed

pluralpurple milkweeds

Questions about purple milkweed

What does purple milkweed mean?
Purple milkweed means asclepias purpurascens, native to the central and midwestern United States.
What part of speech is purple milkweed?
Purple milkweed is a noun.
What is the plural of purple milkweed?
The plural of purple milkweed is purple milkweeds.

Words near purple milkweed in the dictionary

  1. purple loosestrifes
  2. purple marshlocks
  3. purple martin
  4. purple martins
  5. purple meadowrue
  6. purple milkweed
  7. purple milkweeds
  8. purple monkey dishwasher
  9. purple nasties
  10. purple nasty
  11. purple noise

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