milkwort

noun

Any of various plants of the genus Polygala, having variously colored, irregular flowers with two large petallike sepals.

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A plant of the genus Polygala, formerly imagined to increase the milk of nurses.

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A seaside plant, Glaux maritima, with the same supposed property. Also called sea-milkwort.

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A genus of plants (Polygala) of many species. The common European Polygala vulgaris was supposed to have the power of producing a flow of milk in nurses.

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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 Lepidoptra species.

noun

any of various plants of the genus Polygala