silkweed

1. 1.

   any of numerous plants of the genus Asclepias having milky juice and pods that split open releasing seeds with downy tufts

   Synonymsmilkweed

   Broaderherb

   Narrowerwhite milkweedblood flowerpoke milkweedswamp milkweedMead's milkweedpurple silkweedshowy milkweedpoison milkweedbutterfly weedwhorled milkweed

   Part ofAsclepias

Other forms of silkweed

plural

silkweeds·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about silkweed

What does silkweed mean?

silkweed means "any of numerous plants of the genus Asclepias having milky juice and pods that split open releasing seeds with downy tufts".

How many syllables are in silkweed?

silkweed has 2 syllables: sil-kweed. The stress falls on "sil".

What is another word for silkweed?

Close synonyms include milkweed. 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 silkweed a common word?

silkweed is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.