SILVER DOLLAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does silver dollar mean? 

• SILVER DOLLAR (noun)
  The noun SILVER DOLLAR has 2 senses:

1. a dollar made of silver

2. southeastern European plant cultivated for its fragrant purplish flowers and round flat papery silver-white seedpods that are used for indoor decoration

  Familiarity information: SILVER DOLLAR used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SILVER DOLLAR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A dollar made of silver

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

cartwheel; silver dollar

Hypernyms ("silver dollar" is a kind of...):

dollar (a United States coin worth one dollar)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Southeastern European plant cultivated for its fragrant purplish flowers and round flat papery silver-white seedpods that are used for indoor decoration

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

honesty; Lunaria annua; money plant; satin flower; satinpod; silver dollar

Hypernyms ("silver dollar" is a kind of...):

herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)

Holonyms ("silver dollar" is a member of...):

genus Lunaria; Lunaria (small genus of European herbs: honesty)