moonseed
moon·seed
noun
1.
plant of the family Menispermaceae having red or black fruit with crescent- or ring-shaped seeds
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Calque of translingual Menispermum, first attested in 1739. By surface analysis, moon + seed, in reference to the crescent shape of their seeds.
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