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heartseed

heartseed noun: any plant of the genus Cardiospermum, climbing plants with round seeds marked with a spot like a heart.

heartseed: any plant of the genus Cardiospermum, climbing plants with round seeds marked with a spot like a...
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Noun

heartseed (countable and uncountable, plural heartseeds)

  1. Any plant of the genus Cardiospermum, climbing plants with round seeds marked with a spot like a heart.
    • The common Heartseed (C. Halicacabum), sometimes called also Winter cherry, or Heart-pea, is a widely distributed plant, found in all tropical countries.1866, John Lindley, Thomas Moore, The Treasury of Botany: A Popular Dictionary of the Vegetable Kingdom, page 222

Forms of heartseed

pluralheartseeds

Origin of heartseed

From heart + seed.

Questions about heartseed

What does heartseed mean?
Heartseed means any plant of the genus Cardiospermum, climbing plants with round seeds marked with a spot like a heart.
What part of speech is heartseed?
Heartseed is a noun.
What is the plural of heartseed?
The plural of heartseed is heartseeds.

Words near heartseed in the dictionary

  1. heartscapes
  2. heartsearching
  3. heartsearchings
  4. heartsease
  5. heartseases
  6. heartseed
  7. heartseeds
  8. heartsette
  9. heartsful
  10. heartshaped
  11. heartsick

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