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CREEPING JENNY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does creeping Jenny mean?
• CREEPING JENNY (noun)
The noun CREEPING JENNY has 1 sense:
1. a loosestrife vine
Familiarity information: CREEPING JENNY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A loosestrife vine
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
creeping Charlie; creeping Jenny; Lysimachia nummularia; moneywort
Hypernyms ("creeping Jenny" is a kind of...):
loosestrife (any of various herbs and subshrubs of the genus Lysimachia)
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