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Definition of Moonseeds
1. moonseed [n] - See also: moonseed
Lexicographical Neighbors of Moonseeds
Literary usage of Moonseeds
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"moonseeds are twining woody vines, with alternate long-petioled Ivs., which 1370.
... Both the moonseeds are neat and interesting vines, and are hardy in ..."
2. Minnesota Plant Life by Conway MacMillan (1899)
"This plant occurs in damp woods along the flood plains of streams flowing into
the Mississippi, in the extreme southeastern portion of the state. moonseeds. ..."
3. Reports of the Survey (1899)
"The moonseeds, represented in Minnesota by a single form, are characterized by
the disk-shaped or coin- shaped seeds, hence the popular name. ..."
4. Aristocrats of the Garden by Ernest Henry Wilson (1917)
"The moonseeds too have fine foliage, and their curiously ridged and curved seeds
are enclosed in fleshy blue-black fruits. Three species are hardy, ..."
5. The American Botanist edited by Willard Nelson Clute (1921)
"That these plants are poisonous is not surprising when it is recalled that they
are rather closely related to poppies, moonseeds, buttercups, aconite, ..."
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