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milkwort
[ milk-wurt, -wawrt ]
milkwort
/ ˈɪˌɜː /
noun
- any of several plants of the genus Polygala, having small blue, pink, or white flowers with two petal-like sepals: family Polygalaceae. They were formerly believed to increase milk production in cows See also senega
Example Sentences
She found that mouse ear and willow can help stop bleeding and that a tea of anise and dill and bitter milkwort will help when milk will not come.
Central Texas features bluebonnets, Mexican hat and white milkwort.
They came to a patch of milkwort—a blue as deep as that of the sky—with long stems creeping through the grass and each minute flower spreading its two upper petals like wings.
The strain is different from the one affecting olive trees in Puglia, and so far it has only affected milkwort plants, which can be eradicated with little bother since they are ornamental wildflowers.
In late spring the little flowers of the milkwort are common upon dry hill-slopes in the shade of the trees.
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