swallowwort (n.)

  1. tropical herb having orange-red flowers followed by pods suggesting a swallow with outspread wings; a weed throughout the tropics

    [ Syn: blood flower , asclepias curassavica ]

  2. perennial herb with branched woody stock and bright yellow flowers

    [ Syn: celandine , greater celandine , swallow wort , chelidonium majus ]

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