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GENUS MACROTYLOMA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Macrotyloma mean? 

GENUS MACROTYLOMA (noun)
  The noun GENUS MACROTYLOMA has 1 sense:

1. annual or perennial vines of Africa and India and Australia; plants often placed in genus Dolichosplay

  Familiarity information: GENUS MACROTYLOMA used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


GENUS MACROTYLOMA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Annual or perennial vines of Africa and India and Australia; plants often placed in genus Dolichos

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Macrotyloma; Macrotyloma

Hypernyms ("genus Macrotyloma" is a kind of...):

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "genus Macrotyloma"):

Dolichos biflorus; horse grain; horse gram; Macrotyloma uniflorum; poor man's pulse (twining herb of Old World tropics cultivated in India for food and fodder; sometimes placed in genus Dolichos)

Holonyms ("genus Macrotyloma" is a member of...):

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


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