Milkwort

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(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.

Noun

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milkwort - any of various plants of the genus Polygala

bird-on-the-wing, candyweed, common milkwort, flowering wintergreen, fringed polygala, gand flower, gaywings, genus Polygala, orange milkwort, Polygala, Polygala alba, Polygala lutea, Polygala paucifolia, Polygala senega, Polygala vulgaris, Seneca snakeroot, senega, senega root, senega snakeroot, Seneka snakeroot, senga root, subshrub, suffrutex, yellow bachelor's button, yellow milkwort