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Asclepias

noun
1.
Genus of chiefly North American perennial herbs: silkweed; milkweed.  Synonym: genus Asclepias.



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"Asclepias" Quotes from Famous Books



... Severus, in 204, he made a glorious confession of his faith, and though he did not then seal it with his blood, he suffered several years' imprisonment, till the beginning of the reign of Caracalla, in 211, when he wrote to congratulate the church of Antioch upon the election of St. Asclepias, a glorious confessor of Christ, to that patriarchate; the news of which, he says, had softened and made light the irons with which he was loaded. He sent that letter by the priest St. Clement of Alexandria, a man of great virtue, whom God had sent into Cappadocia to ...
— The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints - January, February, March • Alban Butler



Words linked to "Asclepias" :   dicot genus, milkweed, Asclepiadaceae, family Asclepiadaceae, silkweed, milkweed family, magnoliopsid genus



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