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FIVE-SPOT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does five-spot mean?
• FIVE-SPOT (noun)
The noun FIVE-SPOT has 3 senses:
1. a United States bill worth 5 dollars
2. California annual having white flowers with a deep purple blotch on each petal
3. a playing card or a domino or a die whose upward face shows five pips
Familiarity information: FIVE-SPOT used as a noun is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A United States bill worth 5 dollars
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Synonyms:
five-spot; five dollar bill; fiver
Hypernyms ("five-spot" is a kind of...):
bank bill; bank note; banker's bill; banknote; bill; Federal Reserve note; government note; greenback; note (a piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "five-spot"):
nickel; nickel note (five dollars worth of a drug)
Sense 2
Meaning:
California annual having white flowers with a deep purple blotch on each petal
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
five-spot; Nemophila maculata
Hypernyms ("five-spot" is a kind of...):
nemophila (any plant of the genus Nemophila)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A playing card or a domino or a die whose upward face shows five pips
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
five; five-spot
Hypernyms ("five-spot" is a kind of...):
dice; die (a small cube with 1 to 6 spots on the six faces; used in gambling to generate random numbers)
domino (a small rectangular block used in playing the game of dominoes; the face of each block has two equal areas that can bear 0 to 6 dots)
spot (a playing card with a specified number of pips on it to indicate its value)
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