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Noun: swallowwort
  1. Tropical herb having orange-red flowers followed by pods suggesting a swallow with outspread wings; a weed throughout the tropics
    - blood flower, Asclepias curassavica
     
  2. Perennial herb with branched woody stock and bright yellow flowers
    - celandine, greater celandine, swallow wort, Chelidonium majus

Derived forms: swallow worts, swallowworts

Type of: milkweed, poppy, silkweed

Part of: Chelidonium, genus Chelidonium

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