DOLICHOS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Dolichos mean? 

• DOLICHOS (noun)
  The noun DOLICHOS has 1 sense:

1. genus of chiefly tropical vines often placed in genera Dipogon or Lablab or Macrotyloma

  Familiarity information: DOLICHOS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DOLICHOS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Genus of chiefly tropical vines often placed in genera Dipogon or Lablab or Macrotyloma

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Dolichos; genus Dolichos

Hypernyms ("Dolichos" is a kind of...):

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Holonyms ("Dolichos" is a member of...):

Papilionoideae; subfamily Papilionoideae (alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae)