Usually means: Plant used for silk-like fibers.
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  1. silkweed: Merriam-Webster
  2. silkweed: Collins English Dictionary
  3. silkweed: Vocabulary.com
  4. silkweed: Wordnik
  5. silkweed: Wiktionary
  6. silkweed: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. silkweed: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. silkweed: Dictionary.com
  9. Silkweed: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. silkweed: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. silkweed: Rhymezone
  12. Silkweed: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. silkweed: FreeDictionary.org
  14. silkweed: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. silkweed: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. silkweed: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language

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  1. silkweed: Encyclopedia

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  2. silkweed: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (silkweed)

▸ noun:  (botany) Any plant of the genus Asclepias whose seed vessels contain a long, silky down; milkweed.

Similar:
milkweed, butterfly weed, purple milkweed, Indian paintbrush, butterflyweed, asclepias, cottonweed, orange milkweed, swallow-wort, tropical milkweed, more...

Opposite:
coarse, rough, scratchy, prickly, bristly

Phrases:
purple silkweed, more...

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Similar:
milkweed, butterfly weed, purple milkweed, Indian paintbrush, butterflyweed, asclepias, cottonweed, orange milkweed, swallow-wort, tropical milkweed, more...

Opposite:
coarse, rough, scratchy, prickly, bristly

Phrases:
purple silkweed, more...



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