Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

purple milkweed

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.44 in modern English

Syllables: pur-ple milk-weed
IPA

28

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Asclepias purpurascens, native to the central and midwestern United States.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

Asclepias cordifolia, native to the west coast of the United States, the heartleaf milkweed.

Countable; Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

purple milkweeds (plural)

Questions

What does purple milkweed mean?: Asclepias purpurascens, native to the central and midwestern United States.

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