asclepias

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from taxonomic name Asclepias. === Noun === asclepias (plural asclepiases) Any plant of the genus Asclepias. ==== Translations ==== == Latin == === Etymology === From Ancient Greek ἀσκληπιάς (asklēpiás). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [asˈkɫeː.pi.as] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [asˈklɛː.pi.as] === Noun === asclēpias f (genitive asclēpiadis); third declension white swallow-wort (Vincetoxicum hirundinaria) ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. === References === “asclepias”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “asclepias”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.