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VIGNA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Synonyms:
genus Vigna; Vigna
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Vigna" is a kind of...):
rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)
Meronyms (members of "Vigna"):
moth bean; Phaseolus aconitifolius; Vigna aconitifolia (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)
adsuki bean; adzuki bean; Phaseolus angularis; Vigna angularis (bushy annual widely grown in China and Japan for the flour made from its seeds)
corkscrew flower; Phaseolus caracalla; snail-flower; snail bean; snail flower; snailflower; Vigna caracalla (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)
mung; mung bean; mung bean plant; Phaseolus aureus; Vigna radiata (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)
black-eyed pea; cowpea; cowpea plant; Vigna sinensis; Vigna unguiculata (sprawling Old World annual cultivated especially in southern United States for food and forage and green manure)
asparagus bean; Vigna sesquipedalis; Vigna unguiculata sesquipedalis; yard-long bean (South American bean having very long succulent pods)
Holonyms ("Vigna" is a member of...):
Papilionoideae; subfamily Papilionoideae (alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae)
