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CAJANUS CAJAN

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Meaning:

Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods; much cultivated in the tropics

Synonyms:

cajan pea; Cajanus cajan; catjang pea; dahl; dhal; pigeon-pea plant; pigeon pea; red gram

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Cajanus cajan" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Meronyms (parts of "Cajanus cajan"):

cajan pea; dahl; pigeon pea (small highly nutritious seed of the tropical pigeon-pea plant)

Holonyms ("Cajanus cajan" is a member of...):

Cajanus; genus Cajanus (erect densely branched shrubby perennials of Old World tropics; naturalized in other warm regions)

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