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Milkweed

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Any plant of the genera Asclepias and Acerates abounding in a milky juice and having its seed attached to a long silky down silkweed The name is also applied to several other plants with a milky juice as to several kinds of spurge Its leaves are a favorite food source for the larvae of the monarch butterfly

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