Boys-and-girls

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  boys-and-girls \boys-and-girls\ n. (Bot.)
     a Eurafrican annual ({Mercurialis annua}) naturalized in
     America as a weed; formerly dried for use as a purgative,
     diuretic or antisyphilitic.
  
     Syn: herb mercury, herbs mercury.


          [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  boys-and-girls
       n : Eurafrican annual naturalized in America as a weed; formerly
           dried for use as a purgative, diuretic or antisyphilitic
           [syn: {herb mercury}, {herbs mercury}, {Mercurialis annua}]