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THREE-SEEDED MERCURY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does three-seeded mercury mean? 

THREE-SEEDED MERCURY (noun)
  The noun THREE-SEEDED MERCURY has 1 sense:

1. weedy herb of eastern North Americaplay

  Familiarity information: THREE-SEEDED MERCURY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


THREE-SEEDED MERCURY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Weedy herb of eastern North America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Acalypha virginica; three-seeded mercury

Hypernyms ("three-seeded mercury" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Holonyms ("three-seeded mercury" is a member of...):

Acalypha; genus Acalypha (a genus of herbs and shrubs belonging to the family Euphorbiaceae)


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