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GENUS VICIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Vicia mean? 

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

1. widely distributed genus of annual or perennial and often climbing herbsplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


GENUS VICIA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Widely distributed genus of annual or perennial and often climbing herbs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Vicia; Vicia

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "genus Vicia"):

vetch (any of various climbing plants of the genus Vicia having pinnately compound leaves that terminate in tendrils and small variously colored flowers; includes valuable forage and soil-building plants)

tare (any of several weedy vetches grown for forage)

broad-bean; broad-bean plant; broad bean; English bean; European bean; field bean; Vicia faba (Old World upright plant grown especially for its large flat edible seeds but also as fodder)

hairy tare; hairy vetch; Vicia villosa (European vetch much cultivated as forage and cover crops)

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

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


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