1. Word finder
  2. Word definitions
  3. five-spot

Find the word definition

What is "five-spot"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
five-spot
noun
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
five-spot/ten-spot etc
The Collaborative International Dictionary
five-spot

five-spot \five-spot\ n.

  1. (Bot.) A California annual ( Nemophila maculata) having white flowers with a deep purple blotch on each petal.

    Syn: five spot, Nemophila maculata.

  2. a playing card or a domino or a die whose upward face shows five pips.

  3. A five-dollar bill. [U. S. slang]

WordNet
five-spot

  1. n. a United States bill worth 5 dollars [syn: fiver, five dollar bill]

  2. California annual having white flowers with a deep purple blotch on each petal [syn: Nemophila maculata]

  3. a playing card or a domino or a die whose upward face shows five pips

Usage examples of "five-spot".

Here and there on top of the mesa were tufts of desert five-spot, a rose-purple flower with flecks of bright red on the petals, and scattered clumps of rabbit bush.