vigna
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1. genus of vines or erect herbs having trifoliate leaves and yellowish or purplish flowers; of warm or tropical regions; most species often placed in genus Phaseolus (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | rosid dicot genus, |
| definition | : | a genus of dicotyledonous plants (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | moth bean, phaseolus aconitifolius, vigna aconitifolia, |
| definition | : | East Indian legume having hairy foliage and small yellow flowers followed by cylindrical pods; used especially in India for food and forage and as a soil conditioner; sometimes placed in genus Phaseolus (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | adsuki bean, adzuki bean, phaseolus angularis, vigna angularis, |
| definition | : | bushy annual widely grown in China and Japan for the flour made from its seeds (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | corkscrew flower, phaseolus caracalla, snail bean, snail flower, snail-flower, snailflower, vigna caracalla, |
| definition | : | perennial tropical American vine cultivated for its racemes of showy yellow and purple flowers having the corolla keel coiled like a snail shell; sometimes placed in genus Phaseolus (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | golden gram, green gram, mung, mung bean, phaseolus aureus, vigna radiata, |
| definition | : | erect bushy annual widely cultivated in warm regions of India and Indonesia and United States for forage and especially its edible seeds; chief source of bean sprouts used in Chinese cookery; sometimes placed in genus Phaseolus (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | black-eyed pea, cowpea, cowpea plant, vigna sinensis, vigna unguiculata, |
| definition | : | sprawling Old World annual cultivated especially in southern United States for food and forage and green manure (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | asparagus bean, vigna sesquipedalis, vigna unguiculata sesquipedalis, yard-long bean, |
| definition | : | South American bean having very long succulent pods (noun.plant) |
| member meronym | : | papilionoideae, subfamily papilionoideae, |
| definition | : | alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae (noun.plant) |
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