dogbane
/dawg-beyn, dog-/US // ˈdɔgˌbeɪn, ˈdɒg- //UK // (ˈdɒɡˌbeɪn) //
犬牙交错,犬吠声,犬吠,犬类
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : any of several plants of the genus Apocynum, especially A. androsaemifolium, yielding an acrid milky juice and having an intensely bitter root.
Examples
Vinca, ving′ka, n. a genus of woody herbaceous plants of the dogbane family, the periwinkles.
Allied to the milkweed is another plant, the dogbane (Apocynum), which has a similar trick of entrapping its insect friends.
Apocynum androsmifolium (spreading dogbane), Kineo (Bradford).
The larva of this insect feeds on most of the different kinds of milkweed (Asclepias), and also upon dogbane (Apocynum).
The small pink flowers of the spreading dogbane may be found all through the summer, often upon our driest hillsides.
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