PHASEOLUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Phaseolus mean? 

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

1. herbs of warm regions including most American beans

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHASEOLUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Herbs of warm regions including most American beans

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Phaseolus; Phaseolus

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Phaseolus"):

common bean; common bean plant; Phaseolus vulgaris (the common annual twining or bushy bean plant grown for its edible seeds or pods)

frijol; frijole; kidney bean (the common bean plant grown for the beans rather than the pods (especially a variety with large red kidney-shaped beans))

green bean (a common bean plant cultivated for its slender green edible pods)

wax bean (a common bean plant grown for its edible golden pod)

lima bean; lima bean plant; Phaseolus limensis (bush or tall-growing bean plant having large flat edible seeds)

butter-bean plant; butter bean; lima bean; Phaseolus lunatus; sieva bean (bush bean plant cultivated especially in southern United States having small flat edible seeds)

Phaseolus acutifolius latifolius; tepary bean (twining plant of southwestern United States and Mexico having roundish white or yellow or brown or black beans)

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

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

 Context examples 

It was found in a tropical forest in Los Tuxtlas, Mexico, in soil and roots of wild beans called Phaseolus vulgaris, hence the antibiotic's name: phazolicin.

(Scientists discover new antibiotic in tropical forest, National Science Foundation)

The plant seeds of several genera of the family Fabaceae (formerly Leguminosae) used for human food or animal feed, including the genus Phaseolus (common bean and runner bean), and Vigna.

(Bean, NCI Thesaurus)