FIVE-SPOT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does five-spot mean? 

• FIVE-SPOT (noun)
  The noun FIVE-SPOT has 3 senses:

1. a United States bill worth 5 dollars

2. California annual having white flowers with a deep purple blotch on each petal

3. a playing card or a domino or a die whose upward face shows five pips

  Familiarity information: FIVE-SPOT used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FIVE-SPOT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A United States bill worth 5 dollars

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

five-spot; five dollar bill; fiver

Hypernyms ("five-spot" is a kind of...):

bank bill; bank note; banker's bill; banknote; bill; Federal Reserve note; government note; greenback; note (a piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "five-spot"):

nickel; nickel note (five dollars worth of a drug)

Sense 2

Meaning:

California annual having white flowers with a deep purple blotch on each petal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

five-spot; Nemophila maculata

Hypernyms ("five-spot" is a kind of...):

nemophila (any plant of the genus Nemophila)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A playing card or a domino or a die whose upward face shows five pips

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

five; five-spot

Hypernyms ("five-spot" is a kind of...):

dice; die (a small cube with 1 to 6 spots on the six faces; used in gambling to generate random numbers)

domino (a small rectangular block used in playing the game of dominoes; the face of each block has two equal areas that can bear 0 to 6 dots)

spot (a playing card with a specified number of pips on it to indicate its value)