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milkweed

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The issue is that Roundup is being used to eliminate milkweed, which are essential for monarch butterflies.

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Any of several plants that have a milky sap and have pods that split to release seeds with silky tufts.

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noun

Any of several plants that have a milky sap and have pods that split to release seeds with silky tufts.

noun

Principally of the genus Asclepias in order Gentianales, family Apocynaceae

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Also of the genus Calotropis in order Gentianales, family Apocynaceae

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for milkweed.

noun

Any of several plants that have a milky sap and have pods that split to release seeds with silky tufts.

See also: silkweed, sonchus-oleraceus

Example sentences

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The issue is that Roundup is being used to eliminate milkweed, which are essential for monarch butterflies.

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The crop is simply a tool that we are using to allow us to kill off milkweed.

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In some areas, one of the monarch's main food sources, the milkweed plant, is considered a noxious weed.

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If it were not being used to eliminate milkweed, there would be no effect whatsoever on the butterfly populations.

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Or if milkweed were replanted in other areas still within the Monarchs' path but not mixed in with the crops.

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Would it be a public service if Monsanto created a roundup ready milkweed and granted it freely to the world?

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This is profoundly untrue, at least for milkweed sensu lato Most Asclepias species contain cardiac glycosides and can be highly poisonous.

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That kills off plants between the rows of crops that aren't resistant, such as milkweed...

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Removal of milkweed in order to raise maize and other crops has lead to a steep decline in the monarch butterfly population.

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Get a campaign together and pay farmers to grow a few acres of milkweed.

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I figured it was just because of the different habitat (no milkweed), but apparently it's not just that.

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So much so, that we only mow the back meadow in the fall to allow the milkweed to grow.

Quote examples

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This[0] article explains how "Roundup-ready corn and soybeans"(roundup is an herbicide) has caused the near disappearance of milkweed and because of that the near disappearance of Monarch Butterflies which need the milkweed to survive.

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I remember catching monarch butterfly caterpillars, as a child in New York, and keeping them with milkweed stems until they formed their chrysalis and eventually "hatched" as butterflies.

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Aha, but here's the problem: if you live on the east coast (or just east of the Rockies) in the USA, you probably are referring to Asclepias syriaca, but "common milkweed" on the west coast could be a different species, perhaps Asclepias californica.

Proper noun examples

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Milkweed extracts were spread on arrow tips by some Native American groups to more quickly bring down game when hunting.

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How do you use milkweed in a sentence?

The issue is that Roundup is being used to eliminate milkweed, which are essential for monarch butterflies.

What does milkweed mean?

Any of several plants that have a milky sap and have pods that split to release seeds with silky tufts.

What part of speech is milkweed?

milkweed is commonly used as noun.