orange milkweed.
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orange milkweed — noun erect perennial of eastern and southern United States having showy orange flowers • Syn: ↑butterfly weed, ↑chigger flower, ↑chiggerflower, ↑pleurisy root, ↑tuber root, ↑Indian paintbrush, ↑Asclepias tuberosa … Useful english dictionary
orange milkweed. — See butterfly weed (def. 1) … Useful english dictionary
milkweed butterfly — noun large migratory American butterfly having deep orange wings with black and white markings; the larvae feed on milkweed • Syn: ↑monarch, ↑monarch butterfly, ↑Danaus plexippus • Hypernyms: ↑danaid, ↑danaid butterfly • Member Holonym … Useful english dictionary
milkweed butterfly — monarch butterfly mon arch but ter*fly, n. (Zo[ o]l.) A very large red and black butterfly ({Danais Plexippus}) having striking orange brown wings with black veins in a reticulated pattern; called also {milkweed butterfly} and {monarch}. Its… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Orange-belted bumblebee — Taxobox name = Orange belted bumblebee image width = 240px regnum = Animalia phylum = Arthropoda classis = Insecta ordo = Hymenoptera familia = Apidae subfamilia = Apinae genus = Bombus species = B. ternarius binomial = Bombus ternarius binomial… … Wikipedia
milkweed bug — noun Date: 1905 a large black and reddish orange bug (Oncopeltus fasciatus) that feeds chiefly on milkweed … New Collegiate Dictionary
milkweed butterfly — See monarch butterfly. [1875 80, Amer.] * * * ▪ insect group any of a group of butterflies in the brush footed butterfly (q.v.) family, Nymphalidae (order Lepidoptera). Some authorities consider this group to be at the family level… … Universalium
Large milkweed bug — Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum … Wikipedia
orangemilkweed — orange milkweed n. See butterfly weed. * * * … Universalium
List of plants by common name — The common names of plants often vary from region to region, which is why most plant encyclopedias refer to plants using their scientific names: binomials, or Latin names. Many plants have several common names, and many common names refer to… … Wikipedia
