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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



... strong in their actual manifestations of themselves. Apollo for ninety generations had spoken in Delphi. At Epidauros there was a shrine of Asclepias. Its monuments have been collected and edited by Dr. Caton of Liverpool. There sick men and women came, lived a quiet life of diet and religious ceremony, preparing for the night on which they should sleep in the temple. On that night the god came to them, ...
— The Jesus of History • T. R. Glover
... 36. l. 15. —soma quaffing, fire adoring. Soma, the juice of the Asclepias acida, the moon plant. Drinking the expressed juice of this plant is a holy ceremony, used at the completion of a sacrifice, and sanctifies the drinker. "He alone is worthy to drink the juice of the ...
— Nala and Damayanti and Other Poems • Henry Hart Milman


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


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