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CLUSTER BEAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Drought-tolerant herb grown for forage and for its seed which yield a gum used as a thickening agent or sizing material
Synonyms:
cluster bean; Cyamopsis psoraloides; Cyamopsis tetragonolobus; guar
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("cluster bean" is a kind of...):
legume; leguminous plant (an erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae)
Holonyms ("cluster bean" is a member of...):
Cyamopsis; genus Cyamopsis (small genus of annual usually hairy herbs of tropical Africa and Arabia)
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