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LABLAB
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Lablab mean?
• LABLAB (noun)
The noun LABLAB has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: LABLAB used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
One species: hyacinth bean
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Lablab; Lablab
Hypernyms ("Lablab" is a kind of...):
rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)
Meronyms (members of "Lablab"):
bonavist; Dolichos lablab; Egyptian bean; hyacinth bean; Indian bean; Lablab purpureus (perennial twining vine of Old World tropics having trifoliate leaves and racemes of fragrant purple pea-like flowers followed by maroon pods of edible seeds; grown as an ornamental and as a vegetable on the Indian subcontinent; sometimes placed in genus Dolichos)
Holonyms ("Lablab" is a member of...):
Papilionoideae; subfamily Papilionoideae (alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae)
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