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GENUS VICIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Widely distributed genus of annual or perennial and often climbing herbs
Synonyms:
genus Vicia; Vicia
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Vicia" is a kind of...):
rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)
Meronyms (members of "genus Vicia"):
vetch (any of various climbing plants of the genus Vicia having pinnately compound leaves that terminate in tendrils and small variously colored flowers; includes valuable forage and soil-building plants)
tare (any of several weedy vetches grown for forage)
broad-bean; broad-bean plant; broad bean; English bean; European bean; field bean; Vicia faba (Old World upright plant grown especially for its large flat edible seeds but also as fodder)
hairy tare; hairy vetch; Vicia villosa (European vetch much cultivated as forage and cover crops)
Holonyms ("genus Vicia" is a member of...):
Papilionoideae; subfamily Papilionoideae (alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae)
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