BOYS-AND-GIRLS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does boys-and-girls mean? 

• BOYS-AND-GIRLS (noun)
  The noun BOYS-AND-GIRLS has 1 sense:

1. Eurafrican annual naturalized in America as a weed; formerly dried for use as a purgative, diuretic or antisyphilitic

  Familiarity information: BOYS-AND-GIRLS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOYS-AND-GIRLS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Eurafrican annual naturalized in America as a weed; formerly dried for use as a purgative, diuretic or antisyphilitic

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

boys-and-girls; herb mercury; herbs mercury; Mercurialis annua

Hypernyms ("boys-and-girls" is a kind of...):

herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)

Holonyms ("boys-and-girls" is a member of...):

genus Mercurialis; Mercurialis (a genus of slender herbs belonging to the family Euphorbiaceae)