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VICIA

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Widely distributed genus of annual or perennial and often climbing herbs

Synonyms:

genus Vicia; Vicia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Vicia"):

vetch (any of various climbing plants of the genus Vicia having pinnately compound leaves that terminate in tendrils and small variously colored flowers; includes valuable forage and soil-building plants)

tare (any of several weedy vetches grown for forage)

broad-bean; broad-bean plant; broad bean; English bean; European bean; field bean; Vicia faba (Old World upright plant grown especially for its large flat edible seeds but also as fodder)

hairy tare; hairy vetch; Vicia villosa (European vetch much cultivated as forage and cover crops)

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

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

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