American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth
Edition - n. Any of various plants of the genus Polygala, having
variously colored, irregular flowers with two petaloid sepals.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia - n. A plant of the genus
Polygala, formerly imagined to increase the milk of nurses. In
Great Britain the common milkwort is P. vulgaris— also called
cross-flower, gangflower, and procession- and rogation-flower,
in allusion to its time of blooming and use. - n. A seaside
plant, Glaux maritima, with the same supposed property. Also
called sea-milkwort. - n. 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 Lepidoptra species.
GNU Webster's 1913 - n. (Bot.) A genus of plants (Polygala) of
many species. The common European Polygala vulgaris was supposed
to have the power of producing a flow of milk in nurses. - n.
any of various plants of the genus Polygala - From the belief
that it increases human lact