milkwort

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

From 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.

Derived terms

• sea milkwort (Lysimachia maritima)

Translations

Polygala

• Bulgarian: телчарка f (telčarka)
• Catalan: polígala f
• Dutch: vleugeltjesbloem f
• Finnish: linnunruoho (fi)
• French: polygale (fr) m
• German: Kreuzblume (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient: πολύγαλον n (polúgalon)

• Hungarian: pacsirtafű (hu)
• Italian: poligala f
• Polish: krzyżownica (pl) f
• Romanian: amăreală (ro) f, poligală (ro) f
• Russian: исто́д (ru) m (istód)
• Welsh: amlaethai (cy) m