WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026
milk′weed fam′ily,
- Plant Biologythe 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.
'milkweed family' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
anglepod
- asclepiadaceous
- hoya
- Madagascar jasmine
- milkweed
- wax plant
- stapelia
- stephanotis
- swallowwort