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    GUAR

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Drought-tolerant herb grown for forage and for its seed which yield a gum used as a thickening agent or sizing materialplay

    Synonyms:

    cluster bean; Cyamopsis psoraloides; Cyamopsis tetragonolobus; guar

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("guar" is a kind of...):

    legume; leguminous plant (an erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae)

    Holonyms ("guar" is a member of...):

    Cyamopsis; genus Cyamopsis (small genus of annual usually hairy herbs of tropical Africa and Arabia)

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