CYAMOPSIS TETRAGONOLOBUS

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Meaning:

Drought-tolerant herb grown for forage and for its seed which yield a gum used as a thickening agent or sizing material

Synonyms:

cluster bean; Cyamopsis psoraloides; Cyamopsis tetragonolobus; guar

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

legume; leguminous plant (an erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae)

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

Cyamopsis; genus Cyamopsis (small genus of annual usually hairy herbs of tropical Africa and Arabia)

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