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GENUS PSOPHOCARPUS

Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Psophocarpus mean?

• GENUS PSOPHOCARPUS (noun)
The noun GENUS PSOPHOCARPUS has 1 sense:

1. species of tropical Asian and African climbing herbs

Familiarity information: GENUS PSOPHOCARPUS used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• GENUS PSOPHOCARPUS (noun)

Sense 1

genus Psophocarpus ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

Meaning:

Species of tropical Asian and African climbing herbs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Psophocarpus; Psophocarpus

Hypernyms ("genus Psophocarpus" is a kind of...):

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "genus Psophocarpus"):

goa bean; goa bean vine; Manila bean; Psophocarpus tetragonolobus; winged bean; winged pea (a tuberous twining annual vine bearing clusters of purplish flowers and pods with four jagged wings; Old World tropics)

Holonyms ("genus Psophocarpus" is a member of...):

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

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