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VIGNA UNGUICULATA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Vigna unguiculata mean?
• VIGNA UNGUICULATA (noun)
The noun VIGNA UNGUICULATA has 1 sense:
1. sprawling Old World annual cultivated especially in southern United States for food and forage and green manure
Familiarity information: VIGNA UNGUICULATA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Sprawling Old World annual cultivated especially in southern United States for food and forage and green manure
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
black-eyed pea; cowpea; cowpea plant; Vigna sinensis; Vigna unguiculata
Hypernyms ("Vigna unguiculata" is a kind of...):
legume; leguminous plant (an erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae)
Meronyms (parts of "Vigna unguiculata"):
black-eyed pea; cowpea (eaten fresh as shell beans or dried)
black-eyed pea; cowpea (fruit or seed of the cowpea plant)
Holonyms ("Vigna unguiculata" 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)
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