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CORAL PEA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of various Australian climbing plants of the genus Kennedia having scarlet flowers
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("coral pea" is a kind of...):
vine (a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "coral pea"):
coral vine; Kennedia coccinea (prostrate or twining woody vine with small leathery leaves and umbels of red flowers; Australia and Tasmania)
Kennedia prostrata; running postman; scarlet runner (hairy trailing or prostrate western Australian vine with bright scarlet-pink flowers)
Holonyms ("coral pea" is a member of...):
genus Kennedia; genus Kennedya; Kennedia; Kennedya (genus of Australian woody vines having showy red or purplish flowers)