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CORAL PEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does coral pea mean? 

CORAL PEA (noun)
  The noun CORAL PEA has 1 sense:

1. any of various Australian climbing plants of the genus Kennedia having scarlet flowersplay

  Familiarity information: CORAL PEA used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CORAL PEA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

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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