VICIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Vicia mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• 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 ("Vicia" is a kind of...):

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "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 ("Vicia" is a member of...):

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

 Context examples 

Hemolytic anemia due to the ingestion of fava beans or after inhalation of pollen from the Vicia fava plant by persons with glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficient erythrocytes.

(Favism, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)