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CANAVALIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Herbs or woody vines of mainly American tropics and subtropics
Synonyms:
Canavalia; genus Canavalia
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Canavalia" is a kind of...):
rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)
Meronyms (members of "Canavalia"):
Canavalia ensiformis; giant stock bean; jack bean; wonder bean (annual semi-erect bushy plant of tropical South America bearing long pods with white seeds grown especially for forage)
Canavalia gladiata; sword bean (twining tropical Old World plant bearing long pods usually with red or brown beans; long cultivated in Orient for food)
Holonyms ("Canavalia" is a member of...):
Papilionoideae; subfamily Papilionoideae (alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae)
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