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Definition of: milkwort
(milk′wûrt′) noun
1. Any of a genus (Polygala) of plants with varicolored, showy flowers: so called from the fancied property of increasing the secretion of milk in nursing women; specifically, the orange milkwort (P. lutea) of the SE United States.
2. The sea milkwort.
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