milkwort

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Etymology

milk +‎ wort

Noun

milkwort (countable and uncountable, plural milkworts)

  1. Any of more than 500 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.

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