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    RED GRAM

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods; much cultivated in the tropicsplay

    Synonyms:

    cajan pea; Cajanus cajan; catjang pea; dahl; dhal; pigeon-pea plant; pigeon pea; red gram

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    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("red gram" is a kind of...):

    bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

    Meronyms (parts of "red gram"):

    cajan pea; dahl; pigeon pea (small highly nutritious seed of the tropical pigeon-pea plant)

    Holonyms ("red gram" is a member of...):

    Cajanus; genus Cajanus (erect densely branched shrubby perennials of Old World tropics; naturalized in other warm regions)

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