GENUS MACROTYLOMA

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Meaning:

Annual or perennial vines of Africa and India and Australia; plants often placed in genus Dolichos

Synonyms:

genus Macrotyloma; Macrotyloma

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Macrotyloma" is a kind of...):

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "genus Macrotyloma"):

Dolichos biflorus; horse grain; horse gram; Macrotyloma uniflorum; poor man's pulse (twining herb of Old World tropics cultivated in India for food and fodder; sometimes placed in genus Dolichos)

Holonyms ("genus Macrotyloma" is a member of...):

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