noun
widely distributed family of herbs and shrubs of the order Gentianales; most with milky juice
• Syn: ↑Asclepiadaceae, ↑family Asclepiadaceae
• Derivationally related forms: ↑asclepiadaceous (for: ↑Asclepiadaceae)
• Hypernyms: ↑dicot family, ↑magnoliopsid family
• Member Holonyms: ↑Gentianales, ↑order Gentianales
• Member Meronyms:
↑asclepiad, ↑Asclepias, ↑genus Asclepias, ↑Araujia, ↑genus Araujia, ↑genus Cynancum, ↑genus Hoya, ↑Periploca, ↑genus Periploca, ↑Sarcostemma, ↑genus Sarcostemma, ↑genus Stapelia, ↑genus Stephanotis, ↑Vincetoxicum, ↑genus Vincetoxicum
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the plant family Asclepiadaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and vines having simple, opposite or whorled leaves, usually milky juice, umbellike clusters of small flowers, and long pods that split open to release tufted, airborne seeds, and including the anglepod, butterfly weed, milkweed, stephanotis, and wax plant.
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milkweed family,
a large group of dicotyledonous herbs and shrubs, typically having a milky juice and bearing flowers in clusters. The family includes the milkweed, anglepod, and waxplant.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.