milkwort

milkwort

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

milk +‎ wort

Noun

milkwort (countable and uncountable, plural milkworts)

1. 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.

Translations

Polygala

Catalan: polígala f French: polygale (fr) m German: Kreuzblume f

Polish: krzyżownica (pl) f Romanian: amăreală (ro) f, poligală (ro) f Russian: исто́д (ru) m (istód)