CYAMOPSIS TETRAGONOLOBUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Cyamopsis tetragonolobus mean? 

• CYAMOPSIS TETRAGONOLOBUS (noun)
  The noun CYAMOPSIS TETRAGONOLOBUS 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 TETRAGONOLOBUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CYAMOPSIS TETRAGONOLOBUS (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 tetragonolobus" is a kind of...):

legume; leguminous plant (an erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae)

Holonyms ("Cyamopsis tetragonolobus" is a member of...):

Cyamopsis; genus Cyamopsis (small genus of annual usually hairy herbs of tropical Africa and Arabia)