SNAILFLOWER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does snailflower mean? 

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

1. perennial tropical American vine cultivated for its racemes of showy yellow and purple flowers having the corolla keel coiled like a snail shell; sometimes placed in genus Phaseolus

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SNAILFLOWER (noun)

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Meaning:

Perennial tropical American vine cultivated for its racemes of showy yellow and purple flowers having the corolla keel coiled like a snail shell; sometimes placed in genus Phaseolus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

corkscrew flower; Phaseolus caracalla; snail-flower; snail bean; snail flower; snailflower; Vigna caracalla

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

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

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

genus Vigna; Vigna (genus of vines or erect herbs having trifoliate leaves and yellowish or purplish flowers; of warm or tropical regions; most species often placed in genus Phaseolus)