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Asclepias  n.  (Bot.) A genus of plants including the milkweed, swallowwort, and some other species having medicinal properties.
Asclepias butterfly (Zool.), a large, handsome, red and black butterfly (Danais Archippus), found in both hemispheres. It feeds on plants of the genus Asclepias.






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"Asclepias" Quotes from Famous Books



... Soma plant, or Asclepias Acida. Its fermented juice was drunk in sacrifice by the priests and offered to the Gods who ...
— The Ramayana • VALMIKI

... 15. —soma quaffing, fire adoring. Soma, the juice of the Asclepias acida, the moon plant. Drinking the expressed juice of this plant is a holy ceremony, used at the completion of a sacrifice, and sanctifies the drinker. "He alone is worthy to drink the juice of the moon plant who keep a provision of grain sufficient ...
— Nala and Damayanti and Other Poems • Henry Hart Milman



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