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PHASEOLUS

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Meaning:

Herbs of warm regions including most American beans

Synonyms:

genus Phaseolus; Phaseolus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Phaseolus"):

common bean; common bean plant; Phaseolus vulgaris (the common annual twining or bushy bean plant grown for its edible seeds or pods)

frijol; frijole; kidney bean (the common bean plant grown for the beans rather than the pods (especially a variety with large red kidney-shaped beans))

green bean (a common bean plant cultivated for its slender green edible pods)

wax bean (a common bean plant grown for its edible golden pod)

lima bean; lima bean plant; Phaseolus limensis (bush or tall-growing bean plant having large flat edible seeds)

butter-bean plant; butter bean; lima bean; Phaseolus lunatus; sieva bean (bush bean plant cultivated especially in southern United States having small flat edible seeds)

Phaseolus acutifolius latifolius; tepary bean (twining plant of southwestern United States and Mexico having roundish white or yellow or brown or black beans)

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

Papilionoideae; subfamily Papilionoideae (alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae)

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