milkwort

English

Etymology

milk +‎ wort

Noun

milkwort (countable and uncountable, plural milkworts)

Any of more than 500 species of flowering plants of the genus Polygala that are used as a food source by the larvae of some members of the Lepidoptera order.

Derived terms

sea milkwort (Lysimachia maritima)

Translations

Polygala

Bulgarian: телчарка f (telčarka)
Catalan: polígala f
Dutch: vleugeltjesbloem f
Finnish: linnunruoho (fi)
French: polygale (fr) m
German: Kreuzblume (de) f
Greek:
Ancient: πολύγαλον n (polúgalon)
Hungarian: pacsirtafű (hu)
Italian: poligala f
Polish: krzyżownica (pl) f
Romanian: amăreală (ro) f, poligală (ro) f
Russian: исто́д (ru) m (istód)
Welsh: amlaethai (cy) m

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