Library / English Dictionary

CORAL PEA

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Meaning:

Any of various Australian climbing plants of the genus Kennedia having scarlet flowers

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("coral pea" is a kind of...):

vine (a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "coral pea"):

coral vine; Kennedia coccinea (prostrate or twining woody vine with small leathery leaves and umbels of red flowers; Australia and Tasmania)

Kennedia prostrata; running postman; scarlet runner (hairy trailing or prostrate western Australian vine with bright scarlet-pink flowers)

Holonyms ("coral pea" is a member of...):

genus Kennedia; genus Kennedya; Kennedia; Kennedya (genus of Australian woody vines having showy red or purplish flowers)

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