milky juice
41milkweed — [milk′wēd΄] n. 1. any of a genus (Asclepias) of perennial plants of the milkweed family, with a milky juice, or latex, and pods which when ripe burst to release plumed seeds 2. any of various plants with similar milky juice adj. designating a… …
42dogbane family — noun chiefly tropical trees or shrubs or herbs having milky juice and often showy flowers; many are sources of drugs • Syn: ↑Apocynaceae, ↑family Apocynaceae • Hypernyms: ↑dicot family, ↑magnoliopsid family • Member Holonyms: ↑ …
43milkweed family — noun widely distributed family of herbs and shrubs of the order Gentianales; most with milky juice • Syn: ↑Asclepiadaceae, ↑family Asclepiadaceae • Derivationally related forms: ↑asclepiadaceous (for: ↑Asclepiadaceae) …
44sapodilla family — noun tropical trees or shrubs with milky juice and often edible fleshy fruit • Syn: ↑Sapotaceae, ↑family Sapotaceae • Hypernyms: ↑dicot family, ↑magnoliopsid family • Member Holonyms: ↑Ebenales, ↑ …
45jicama — /hee keuh meuh, hik euh /, n. the large, edible, tuberous root of a tropical American plant, Pachyrhizus erosus, of the legume family, eaten as a vegetable either raw or boiled. [1900 05; < MexSp < Nahuatl xicama, xicamatl] * * * vine… …
46cow tree — noun 1. [translation of American Spanish árbol de vaca] a. : a So. American tree (Brosimum galactodendron) yielding a rich milky juice sometimes used as food b. : any of several other trees (as the balata and the couma) yielding a similar juice c …
47Opium — An addictive narcotic drug derived from the unripe seedpods of the opium poppy. Preparations of opium were called laudanum. Derivatives of laudanum include paregoric (a drug to treat diarrhea), morphine and heroin. For centuries, opium was used… …
48rubber — The prepared inspissated milky juice of Hevea brasiliensis and other species of Hevea (family Euphorbiaceae), known in commerce as pure Para r.; used in the manufacture of various plasters, tissues, bandages, etc. * * * rub·ber rəb ər n 1) an… …
49Lactuca — noun an herb with milky juice: lettuce; prickly lettuce • Syn: ↑genus Lactuca • Hypernyms: ↑asterid dicot genus • Member Holonyms: ↑Compositae, ↑family Compositae, ↑ …
50Balata — Bal a*ta, n. [Sp., prob. fr. native name.] 1. A West Indian sapotaceous tree ({Bumelia retusa}). [Webster 1913 Suppl.] 2. The bully tree ({Minusops globosa}); also, its milky juice ({); also, its milky juice (}), which when dried constitutes an… …
