Definition of "moonseed" []

• Any of several dioecious vines of the closely related genera Cocculus and Menispermum, having inconspicuous flowers and red or blackish fruit. (noun)

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• "The Dakota dug the yellow root of the moonseed plant for medicinal purposes, for healing."
• "If there had even been a false hope that a nanotech antidote or something to stop the moonseed could be discovered, then I would be more willing to become emotionally attached to the characters and scenery that is being destroyed."
• "He also collected Chondrodendron iquitanum, one of the curare plants brought back from the Canelos Quichua by Richard Gill, as well as two species of Abuta, a related genus in the moonseed family."