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MOONSEED

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Meaning:

Plant of the family Menispermaceae having red or black fruit with crescent- or ring-shaped seeds

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("moonseed" is a kind of...):

vine (a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "moonseed"):

Canada moonseed; common moonseed; Menispermum canadense; yellow parilla (a woody vine of eastern North America having large oval leaves and small white flowers and purple to blue-black fruits)

Carolina moonseed; Cocculus carolinus (woody vine of southeastern United States resembling the common moonseed but having red fruits)

Holonyms ("moonseed" is a member of...):

family Menispermaceae; Menispermaceae; moonseed family (herbaceous or woody climbers)

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