AMPHICARPAEA

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Very small genus of twining vines of North America and Asia: hog peanut

Synonyms:

Amphicarpa; Amphicarpaea; genus Amphicarpa; genus Amphicarpaea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Amphicarpaea"):

Amphicarpa bracteata; Amphicarpaea bracteata; hog peanut; wild peanut (vine widely distributed in eastern North America producing racemes of purple to maroon flowers and abundant (usually subterranean) edible one-seeded pods resembling peanuts)

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

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