Usually means: Edible plant, heart-shaped seed pods.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word shepherd's purse:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. shepherd's purse: Merriam-Webster
  2. shepherd's purse: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. shepherd's purse: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. shepherd's-purse, shepherd's-purse: Collins English Dictionary
  5. shepherd's purse: Vocabulary.com
  6. shepherd's purse: Wordnik
  7. shepherd's purse: Wiktionary
  8. shepherd's-purse: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. shepherd's-purse: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. shepherd's-purse, shepherd's purse, shepherds-purse, shepherds purse: Dictionary.com
  11. Shepherd's Purse, Shepherd's purse, Shepherds purse: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. shepherd's purse: Rhymezone
  13. shepherds purse: FreeDictionary.org
  14. shepherd's purse: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. shepherd's-purse, shepherd's purse: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shepherd's-purse, shepherd's purse: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. A Modern Herbal, 1931, by Mrs. M. Grieve (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (shepherd's purse)

noun:  An edible weed, Capsella bursa-pastoris, family Brassicaceae, native to Europe but now found world-wide.


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