moonseed

When she finished she picked up a trailing vine of moonseed.
The Harvester|Gene Stratton Porter
You 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 Porter
She learned the uses and prices of the plant, and also made drawings of cohosh, moonseed and bloodroot.
The Harvester|Gene Stratton Porter
These 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 Thoreau

Fig. 231, staminate, and 232, pistillate flower of Moonseed.
The Elements of Botany|Asa Gray

British Dictionary definitions for moonseed

moonseed

/ (ˈmuːnˌsiːd) /

noun

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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