genus vigna

1. Genus of vines or erect herbs having trifoliate leaves and yellowish or purplish flowers;
   Of warm or tropical regions;
   Most species often placed in genus Phaseolus (synset 112597505)
   is a type of: rosid dicot genus - a genus of dicotyledonous plants
   member holonym:

   • moth bean, phaseolus aconitifolius, vigna aconitifolia - East Indian legume having hairy foliage and small yellow flowers followed by cylindrical pods; used especially in India for food and forage and as a soil conditioner; sometimes placed in genus Phaseolus
   • adsuki bean, adzuki bean, phaseolus angularis, vigna angularis - bushy annual widely grown in China and Japan for the flour made from its seeds
   • corkscrew flower, phaseolus caracalla, snail bean, snail flower, snail-flower, snailflower, vigna caracalla - perennial tropical American vine cultivated for its racemes of showy yellow and purple flowers having the corolla keel coiled like a snail shell; sometimes placed in genus Phaseolus
   • mung, mung bean, mung bean plant, phaseolus aureus, vigna radiata - erect bushy annual widely cultivated in warm regions of India and Indonesia and United States for forage and especially its edible seeds; chief source of bean sprouts used in Chinese cookery; sometimes placed in genus Phaseolus
   • black-eyed pea, cowpea, cowpea plant, vigna sinensis, vigna unguiculata - sprawling Old World annual cultivated especially in southern United States for food and forage and green manure
   • asparagus bean, vigna sesquipedalis, vigna unguiculata sesquipedalis, yard-long bean - South American bean having very long succulent pods
   belongs to: papilionoideae, subfamily papilionoideae - alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae
   same as: vigna

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