five-spot

five-spot
/fuyv"spot'/, n.
1. a playing card or the upward face of a die bearing five pips; a domino one half of which bears five pips.
2. Slang. a five-dollar bill.
3. a low plant, Nemophila maculata, of the waterleaf family, native to western and central California, having white flowers with a purple spot at the tip of each of its five petals.
[1900-05, Amer.]

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