milkwort

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of more than five hundred species of flowering plants of the genus Polygala that are used as a food source by the larvae of some members of the Lepidoptera order.

Word forms

milkwort milkworts

Etymology

From milk + wort.

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