moonseed
any climbing plant of the genus Menispermum, having greenish-white flowers and crescent-shaped seeds.
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How to use moonseed in a sentence
When she finished she picked up a trailing vine of moonseed.
The Harvester | Gene Stratton PorterYou see it on cultivated plums, grapes, and apples, but never in any such perfection as on moonseed and black haws in the woods.
The Harvester | Gene Stratton PorterShe learned the uses and prices of the plant, and also made drawings of cohosh, moonseed and bloodroot.
The Harvester | Gene Stratton PorterThese small fractions of her light remind one of the plant called moonseed,—as if the moon were sowing it in such places.
Excursions and Poems | Henry David ThoreauFig. 231, staminate, and 232, pistillate flower of moonseed.
The Elements of Botany | Asa Gray
British Dictionary definitions for moonseed
/ (ˈmuːnˌsiːd) /
any menispermaceous climbing plant of the genus Menispermum and related genera, having red or black fruits with crescent-shaped or ring-shaped seeds
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