Crossword-Solution: MILKWEED
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| Milkweed | n. | Any plant of the genera Asclepias and Acerates, abounding in a milky juice, and having its seed attached to a long silky down; silkweed. The name is also applied to several other plants with a milky juice, as to several kinds of spurge. |
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| Caterpillar's food | 1 answer |
| Latex-filled plant | 1 answer |
| MONARCH butterfly food plant | 1 answer |
| Seeds with downy tufts | 1 answer |
| Sticky plant | 1 answer |
| stephanotis | 1 answer |
| AMERICAN tropical flower | 2 answers |
| Herbicide target | 3 answers |
| Latex source | 4 answers |
| BUTTERFLY, type of | 41 answers |
| GREENHOUSE plant | 52 answers |
| Garden plant. | 53 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with MILKWEED (5)
Across the wire fence, in the long grass, I saw a clump of flaming orange-coloured milkweed, rare in that part of the state.
This is that milkweed from whose stems the Indians flayed fibre to make snares for small game, but what use the beetles put it to except for a displaying ground for their gay coats, I could never discover.
She knew she could from the willow milkweed; and under the head of “sweets” an appetizing jelly from manzanita.
Huckleberry, Milkweed, and Dandelion were attacked with the whooping cough, but bore it bravely, and kept out of doors whenever the sun shone.
There were patches of black-eyed Susans in the meadows here and there, while pink and white hardhack grew by the road, with day lilies and blossoming milkweed.
Quotes with MILKWEED (3)
On the first day of November last year, sacred to many religious calendars but especially the Celtic, I went for a walk among bare oaks and birch. Nothing much was going on. Scarlet sumac had passed and the bees were dead. The pond had slicked overnight into that shiny and deceptive glaze of delusion, first ice. It made me remember sakes and conjure a vision of myself skimming backward on one foot, the other extended; the arms become wings. Minnesota girls know that this is n…
She had never met Caroline's mother, but she knew a thing or two about what happened when someone went far away, how after a time you couldn't see their faces anymore when you closed your eyes or hear exactly how they laughed at a joke, how they seemed less like a real person whom you loved and more like a character in a story. And once that happened, it was easy, too easy, to let them float away like milkweed.
From an essay on early reading by Robert Pinsky: My favorite reading for many years was the "Alice" books. The sentences had the same somber, drugged conviction as Sir John Tenniel's illustrations, an inexplicable, shadowy dignity that reminded me of the portraits and symbols engraved on paper money. The books were not made of words and sentences but of that smoky assurance, the insistent solidity of folded, textured, Victorian interiors elaborately barricaded against the dou…
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Appears in: Newsday, NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1971–2009).