Menispermum

Menispermum
noun
climbing herbs
Syn: ↑genus Menispermum
Hypernyms: ↑magnoliid dicot genus
Member Holonyms: ↑Menispermaceae, ↑family Menispermaceae, ↑moonseed family

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\\ˌmenəˈspərməm\ noun
Usage: capitalized
Etymology: New Latin, from meni- (from Greek mēnē moon) + -spermum (from Greek sperma seed) — more at sperm
1. : a genus (family Menispermaceae) of climbing herbs having numerous stamens and black drupaceous fruit — see moonseed

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menispermum /me-ni-spûrˈməm/
noun
Any plant of the moonseed genus Menispermum, espM. canadense, giving name to a family Menispermāˈceae related to the buttercup family
ORIGIN: Gr mēnē moon, and sperma seed
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menispermāˈceous adjective

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