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    VICIA

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Widely distributed genus of annual or perennial and often climbing herbsplay

    Synonyms:

    genus Vicia; Vicia

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

    rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

    Meronyms (members of "Vicia"):

    vetch (any of various climbing plants of the genus Vicia having pinnately compound leaves that terminate in tendrils and small variously colored flowers; includes valuable forage and soil-building plants)

    tare (any of several weedy vetches grown for forage)

    broad-bean; broad-bean plant; broad bean; English bean; European bean; field bean; Vicia faba (Old World upright plant grown especially for its large flat edible seeds but also as fodder)

    hairy tare; hairy vetch; Vicia villosa (European vetch much cultivated as forage and cover crops)

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

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

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