white milkweed

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   tall herb with leafless white waxy stems and whitish starlike flowers; southwestern United States

   SynonymsAsclepias albicans

   Broadermilkweed

Questions about white milkweed

What does white milkweed mean?

white milkweed means "tall herb with leafless white waxy stems and whitish starlike flowers; southwestern United States".

What is another word for white milkweed?

Close synonyms include Asclepias albicans. 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 white milkweed a common word?

white 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.