heartseed

English

A heartseed or balloon vine (Cardiospermum halicacabum) opened to show the seeds

Wikispecies

Etymology

heart +‎ seed

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.
   • 1866, John Lindley and Thomas Moore, The Treasury of Botany: A Popular Dictionary of the Vegetable Kingdom‎^[1], page 222:

     The common Heartseed (C. Halicacabum), sometimes called also Winter cherry, or Heart-pea, is a widely distributed plant, found in all tropical countries.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “heartseed”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• hederates