(n)tropical herb having orange-red flowers followed by pods suggesting a swallow with outspread wings; a weed throughout the tropics, Syn.Asclepias curassavica, swallowwort
n. (Bot.) (a) See Celandine. (b) A poisonous plant (Vincetoxicum officinale) of the Milkweed family, at one time used in medicine; -- also called white swallowwort. [ 1913 Webster ]
African swallowwort, a plant of the genus Stapelia. [ 1913 Webster ]