silkweed

Questions about silkweed

What is another word for silkweed?

It depends which silkweed you mean. In the sense “any of numerous plants of the genus Asclepias having milky juice and pods that split open releasing seeds with downy tufts”, the synonyms are milkweed. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of silkweed?

WordNet records no antonym for silkweed. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for silkweed come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of silkweed

• Full entry for silkweedAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for silkweedWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.