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CYAMOPSIS

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Small genus of annual usually hairy herbs of tropical Africa and Arabia

Synonyms:

Cyamopsis; genus Cyamopsis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Cyamopsis"):

cluster bean; Cyamopsis psoraloides; Cyamopsis tetragonolobus; guar (drought-tolerant herb grown for forage and for its seed which yield a gum used as a thickening agent or sizing material)

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

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

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