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CYAMOPSIS PSORALOIDES
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Cyamopsis psoraloides mean?
• CYAMOPSIS PSORALOIDES (noun)
The noun CYAMOPSIS PSORALOIDES has 1 sense:
1. drought-tolerant herb grown for forage and for its seed which yield a gum used as a thickening agent or sizing material
Familiarity information: CYAMOPSIS PSORALOIDES used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• CYAMOPSIS PSORALOIDES (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Drought-tolerant herb grown for forage and for its seed which yield a gum used as a thickening agent or sizing material
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
cluster bean; Cyamopsis psoraloides; Cyamopsis tetragonolobus; guar
Hypernyms ("Cyamopsis psoraloides" is a kind of...):
legume; leguminous plant (an erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae)
Holonyms ("Cyamopsis psoraloides" is a member of...):
Cyamopsis; genus Cyamopsis (small genus of annual usually hairy herbs of tropical Africa and Arabia)
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