English > genus Vigna: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | genus of vines or erect herbs having trifoliate leaves and yellowish or purplish flowers; of warm or tropical regions; most species often placed in genus Phaseolus. |
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| Synonym | Vigna |
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| Member of | Papilionoideae, subfamily Papilionoideae | Alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae |
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| Members | adzuki bean, adsuki bean, Vigna angularis, Phaseolus angularis | bushy annual widely grown in China and Japan for the flour made from its seeds |
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| asparagus bean, yard-long bean, Vigna unguiculata sesquipedalis, Vigna sesquipedalis | South American bean having very long succulent pods |
| cowpea, cowpea plant, black-eyed pea, Vigna unguiculata, Vigna sinensis | sprawling Old World annual cultivated especially in southern United States for food and forage and green manure |
| moth bean, Vigna aconitifolia, Phaseolus aconitifolius | East Indian legume having hairy foliage and small yellow flowers followed by cylindrical pods |
| mung, mung bean, mung bean plant, Vigna radiata, Phaseolus aureus | Erect bushy annual widely cultivated in warm regions / regions of India and Indonesia and United States for forage and especially its edible seeds |
| snailflower, snail-flower, snail flower, snail bean, corkscrew flower, Vigna caracalla, Phaseolus caracalla | perennial tropical American vine cultivated for its racemes of showy yellow and purple flowers having the corolla keel coiled like a snail shell |
| Broader | rosid dicot genus | A genus of dicotyledonous plants |
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| Spanish | genus vigna, vigna |
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| Catalan | genus vigna, vigna |
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