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milkwort

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
milk-wort
IPA
17
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

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.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

From milk + wort.

Usage

Inflected Forms

milkworts (plural)

Phrases

common milkwort sea milkwort

Synonyms

Rogation-flower

Questions

What does milkwort mean?
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.
Where does milkwort come from?
From milk + wort.

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