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AMPHICARPA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Amphicarpa mean?
• AMPHICARPA (noun)
The noun AMPHICARPA has 1 sense:
1. very small genus of twining vines of North America and Asia: hog peanut
Familiarity information: AMPHICARPA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Very small genus of twining vines of North America and Asia: hog peanut
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Amphicarpa; Amphicarpaea; genus Amphicarpa; genus Amphicarpaea
Hypernyms ("Amphicarpa" is a kind of...):
rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)
Meronyms (members of "Amphicarpa"):
Amphicarpa bracteata; Amphicarpaea bracteata; hog peanut; wild peanut (vine widely distributed in eastern North America producing racemes of purple to maroon flowers and abundant (usually subterranean) edible one-seeded pods resembling peanuts)
Holonyms ("Amphicarpa" is a member of...):
Papilionoideae; subfamily Papilionoideae (alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae)
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