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The following 10 entries include the term John's.
Saint John's bread
nounSaint-John's-wort
noun: any of a large genus (Hypericum of the family Hypericaceae, the Saint-John's-wort family) of cosmopolitan herbs and shrubs with showy pentamerous yellow flowers
great Saint-John's-wort
noun: a large-flowered St.-John's wort (Hypericum pyramidatum)
John's-wort
noun: saint-john's-wort
marsh Saint-John's-wort
noun: a perennial glabrous marsh herb (Hypericum virginianum) having sessile cordate or clasping leaves and pink to mauve flowers
Saint John's eve
noun: the evening before St. John the Baptist's Day
Saint John's fire
noun: a fire lighted on the night of St. John the Baptist's Day to ward off sickness and ill luck compare needfire
Saint-John's-wort family
noun: guttiferae
shrubby St.-John's-wort
noun: a stiff shrub or woody herb (Hypericum spathulatum) having oblong entire leaves and dense cymes of yellow flowers with numerous stamens
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