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English noun: boys-and-girls

1. boys-and-girls (plant) Eurafrican annual naturalized in America as a weed; formerly dried for use as a purgative, diuretic or antisyphilitic


Synonymsherb mercury, herbs mercury, Mercurialis annua


Broader (hypernym)herb, herbaceous plant


Member meronymgenus Mercurialis, Mercurialis









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