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PIGEON-PEA PLANT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods; much cultivated in the tropics
Synonyms:
cajan pea; Cajanus cajan; catjang pea; dahl; dhal; pigeon-pea plant; pigeon pea; red gram
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("pigeon-pea plant" is a kind of...):
bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)
Meronyms (parts of "pigeon-pea plant"):
cajan pea; dahl; pigeon pea (small highly nutritious seed of the tropical pigeon-pea plant)
Holonyms ("pigeon-pea plant" is a member of...):
Cajanus; genus Cajanus (erect densely branched shrubby perennials of Old World tropics; naturalized in other warm regions)
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