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Definition of Cocculus carolinus
1. Noun. Woody vine of southeastern United States resembling the common moonseed but having red fruits.
Generic synonyms: Moonseed
Group relationships: Cocculus, Genus Cocculus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cocculus Carolinus
Literary usage of Cocculus carolinus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions by Homoeopathic Medical Society of the State of New York (1869)
"... Of the medical properties of the cocculus carolinus, nothing is yet known.
A medical friend once sent me a bunch of the fruit, and stated that a child, ..."
2. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste by Luther Tucker (1865)
"There are two other indigenous plants of this family: cocculus carolinus, native
of river banks in Illinois and Virginia, with greenish flowers and red ..."
3. Genera Florae Americae Boreali-orientalis Illustrata: The Genera of the by Asa Gray (1848)
"cocculus carolinus, DC.; — branch of the sterile plant, natural size, from the
Botanic Garden, Cambridge. 1. Diagram of the aestivation of the ..."
4. Laboratory Exercises in Botany by Edson Sewell Bastin (1894)
"the Cocculus (cocculus carolinus, -DC.), the Yellow Parilla (Menis- permum
Canadense, L.), the Virgin's Bower (Clematis Virginiana, L.), the Basswood (Tilia ..."
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