MILKWORT


Meaning of MILKWORT in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈmilk-ˌwərt, -ˌwȯrt ]

noun

Date: 1578

: any of a genus ( Polygala of the family Polygalaceae, the milkwort family) of herbs and shrubs often having showy flowers with three sometimes crested petals united below into a tube and an irregular calyx with two petaloid sepals

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