plural silver dollars
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: any of various U.S. coins made chiefly of silver and having a face value of one dollar
variants
or less commonly silver dollar
plural silver dollar plants also silver dollars
: money plant sense 1
This year we decided to leave the usual Christmas ornaments in the box and decorate the house solely with cuttings from our winter woods. We spent a lovely morning gathering pine and cedar boughs … and even found some silver dollar plant seed discs to add a silvery shimmer to our nature collection.—Catherine Cardinal
The flowering plant yields purple blossoms, although the silver dollar is best-known for its large, flat seed pods, which are often dried and sold commercially.—Nancy O'Donnell
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“Silver dollar.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/silver%20dollar. Accessed 8 Jul. 2026.
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