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Milkwort   Listen
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Milkwort  n.  (Bot.) A genus of plants (Polygala) of many species. The common European Polygala vulgaris was supposed to have the power of producing a flow of milk in nurses. Note: The species of Campanula, or bellflower, are sometimes called milkwort, from their juice.






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"Milkwort" Quotes from Famous Books



... they go, Catherine gathers a nosegay. She picks blue centauries, scarlet poppies, cuckoo-flowers, and buttercups, which she also knows as little chicks. She picks those pretty purple blossoms that grow in hedgerows and are called Venus' looking-glasses. She picks the dark ears of the milkwort, and crane's-bill and lily of the valley, whose tiny white bells shed a delicious perfume at the least puff of wind. Catherine loves flowers because they are beautiful; and she loves them too because ...
— Child Life In Town And Country - 1909 • Anatole France



Words linked to "Milkwort" :   senega root, bird-on-the-wing, Polygala senega, candyweed, milkwort family, subshrub, gand flower, fringed polygala, senega, Polygala vulgaris, yellow milkwort, common milkwort, Polygala, senga root, yellow bachelor's button, sea milkwort, Seneca snakeroot, Polygala paucifolia, suffrutex, Polygala lutea, gaywings, Polygala alba, Seneka snakeroot, senega snakeroot, genus Polygala, flowering wintergreen



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