VIGNA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Vigna mean? 

• VIGNA (noun)
  The noun VIGNA has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: VIGNA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VIGNA (noun)

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Vigna; Vigna

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 bean; snail flower; 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)

golden gram; green gram; mung; mung bean; 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)