मुख्य रूप से उत्तरी अमेरिकी बारहमासी जड़ी बूटियों का जीनस: सिल्कवेड; मिल्कवेड

asclepias's Usage Examples:

Milk-weed, Silk-weed (Asclepias) - A large genus of strong-growing herbaceous perennials, few of them adapted for the flower garden, as they require a good deal of room, and are not attractive.

- Stamen of Asclepias, showing filament f, anther a, and appendages p. Enlarged.

- Pistil of Asclepias (a) with pollen-masses (p) adhering to the stigma (s).

SOMA (Sanskrit for "pressed juice," from the root su, to press), in Hindu mythology the god who is a personification of the soma plant (Asclepias acida), from which an intoxicating milky juice is squeezed.

pp. 522-524, 3rd ed., 1867) to be the singular fruit called by the Arabs 'Other, produced by the Asclepias gigantea or procera of botanists.

It corresponds to the soma plant (Asclepias acida) of the ancient Aryans of India.

asclepias's Meaning':

genus of chiefly North American perennial herbs: silkweed; milkweed