Meaning of swallow-wort | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A plant of any of several species of plants whose parts resemble a swallow's tail:
   countable, uncountable
2. Plants of genus Vincetoxicum, especially Vincetoxicum nigrum (syn. Cynanchum nigrum, black swallow-wort) or (Vincetoxicum hirundinaria (syn. Cynanchum vincetoxicum, white swallowwort).
   countable, uncountable
3. Plants of genus Cynanchum
   countable, uncountable
4. Chelidonium majus (greater celandine).
   countable, uncountable
5. Pattalias palustris (syn. Seutera angustifolia, Gulf Coast swallow wort).
   countable, uncountable
6. In genus Asclepias (milkweed):
   countable, uncountable
7. orange swallow-wort (Asclepias tuberosa)
   countable, uncountable
8. silky swallow-wort (Asclepias syriaca
   countable, uncountable
9. Calotropis spp. (giant milkweed).
   countable, uncountable
10. Euphorbia maculata (spotted spurge).
    countable, uncountable

Examples

“Among the Kunbis of the Central Provinces of India a bachelor who marries a widow must first be married to an ākra or swallow-wort (Calotropis gigantea), a very common plant with mauve or purple flowers, which grows on waste land.”

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