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    VIGNA UNGUICULATA

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Sprawling Old World annual cultivated especially in southern United States for food and forage and green manureplay

    Synonyms:

    black-eyed pea; cowpea; cowpea plant; Vigna sinensis; Vigna unguiculata

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("Vigna unguiculata" is a kind of...):

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

    Meronyms (parts of "Vigna unguiculata"):

    black-eyed pea; cowpea (eaten fresh as shell beans or dried)

    black-eyed pea; cowpea (fruit or seed of the cowpea plant)

    Holonyms ("Vigna unguiculata" is a member of...):

    genus Vigna; Vigna (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)

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