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    CANAVALIA

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Herbs or woody vines of mainly American tropics and subtropicsplay

    Synonyms:

    Canavalia; genus Canavalia

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

    rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

    Meronyms (members of "Canavalia"):

    Canavalia ensiformis; giant stock bean; jack bean; wonder bean (annual semi-erect bushy plant of tropical South America bearing long pods with white seeds grown especially for forage)

    Canavalia gladiata; sword bean (twining tropical Old World plant bearing long pods usually with red or brown beans; long cultivated in Orient for food)

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

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

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