MENISPERMUM, MOONSEED; a genus of the decandria order, belonging to the diœcia class of plants. There are three species, all of them climbing plants, rising 14 feet high, and natives of warm climates; but noway remarkable for beauty. The seeds of a kind which grows in the Levant, being formed into a paste, are regarded by the inhabitants as specific against lice and cutaneous eruptions. The same paste is likewise used for the purpose of intoxicating fishes.