showy milkweed

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   milkweed of southern North America having large starry purple and pink flowers

   SynonymsAsclepias speciosa

   Broadermilkweed

Questions about showy milkweed

What does showy milkweed mean?

showy milkweed means "milkweed of southern North America having large starry purple and pink flowers".

What is another word for showy milkweed?

Close synonyms include Asclepias speciosa. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is showy milkweed a common word?

showy milkweed is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.