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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典
 swallowwort
 白屈菜
From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 Swal·low·wort 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.
 African swallowwort, a plant of the genus Stapelia.
 
From: WordNet (r) 2.0
 swallowwort
      n 1: tropical herb having orange-red flowers followed by pods
           suggesting a swallow with outspread wings; a weed
           throughout the tropics [syn: blood flower, Asclepias
           curassavica]
      2: perennial herb with branched woody stock and bright yellow
         flowers [syn: celandine, greater celandine, swallow
         wort, Chelidonium majus]