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noun
Any of more than five hundred species of flowering plants of the genus Polygala that are used as a food source by the larvae of some members of the Lepidoptera order.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: Rogation-flower
Antonyms: none provided
noun
any of various plants of the genus Polygala
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: subshrub, suffrutex
Narrower terms: senega, Polygala alba, orange milkwort, yellow milkwort, candyweed, yellow bachelor's button, Polygala lutea, flowering wintergreen, gaywings, bird-on-the-wing, fringed polygala, Polygala paucifolia, Seneca snakeroot, Seneka snakeroot, senga root, senega root, senega snakeroot, Polygala senega, common milkwort, gand flower, Polygala vulgaris
History
From milk + wort.
Across languages
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