moonseed

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Any of several vines of the closely related genera Cocculus and Menispermum, having small flowers and red or blackish fruit with crescent-shaped seeds.

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A plant of the genus Menispermum.

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A climbing plant of the genus Menispermum; — so called from the crescentlike form of the seeds.

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A twining plant of the genus Menispermum, eponymous of the Menispermae or moonseed family

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