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moonseed — [mo͞on′sēd΄] n. any of a genus (Menispermum) of twining vines of the moonseed family, with small clusters of purple berries and crescent shaped seeds adj. designating a family (Menispermaceae, order Ranunculales) of tropical dicotyledonous lianas … English World dictionary
moonseed — noun plant of the family Menispermaceae having red or black fruit with crescent or ring shaped seeds • Hypernyms: ↑vine • Hyponyms: ↑common moonseed, ↑Canada moonseed, ↑yellow parilla, ↑Menispermum canadense, ↑Carolina moonseed, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
family Menispermaceae — noun herbaceous or woody climbers • Syn: ↑Menispermaceae, ↑moonseed family • Hypernyms: ↑magnoliid dicot family • Member Holonyms: ↑Ranales, ↑order Ranales, ↑Ranuncula … Useful english dictionary
moonseed — noun Date: 1739 a twining plant (Menispermum canadense of the family Menispermaceae, the moonseed family) of eastern North America that has crescent shaped seeds and black fruits … New Collegiate Dictionary
moonseed — noun A twining plant of the genus Menispermum, eponymous of the Menispermae or moonseed family The crescent shaped (hence their name) moonseeds bear black fruits See Also: moonbeam, moon blind, mooncalf, moon eyed, moonfish … Wiktionary
Moonseed — is a common name of some flowering plants in the family Menispermaceae: Cocculus Menispermum Moonseed is also a 1998 science fiction book by Stephen Baxter. This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title. If an … Wikipedia
moonseed — /moohn seed /, n. 1. any climbing plant of the genus Menispermum, having greenish white flowers and crescent shaped seeds. 2. See Carolina moonseed. [1730 40; MOON + SEED] * * * ▪ plant any of three species of woody vines constituting the… … Universalium
moonseed — moon•seed [[t]ˈmunˌsid[/t]] n. pln any climbing plant belonging to the genus Menispermum, of the family Menispermaceae, having greenish white flowers and crescent shaped seeds • Etymology: 1730–40 … From formal English to slang
moonseed — /ˈmunsid/ (say moohnseed) noun any of the climbing herbs constituting the genus Menispermum (family Menispermaceae) with greenish white flowers, so called from the crescent shaped seeds …
magnoliid dicot family — noun family of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms • Hypernyms: ↑dicot family, ↑magnoliopsid family • Hyponyms: ↑Annonaceae, ↑family Annonaceae, ↑custard apple family, ↑Berberidace … Useful english dictionary
