milkwort

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milkwort

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Polygala

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From milk +‎ wort.

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.

• common milkwort (Polygala vulgaris)
• sea milkwort (Lysimachia maritima)