VIGNA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Vigna mean? 

• VIGNA (noun)
  The noun VIGNA has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: VIGNA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VIGNA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Vigna; Vigna

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Vigna"):

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-flower; snail bean; 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)

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

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

 Context examples 

The plant seeds of several genera of the family Fabaceae (formerly Leguminosae) used for human food or animal feed, including the genus Phaseolus (common bean and runner bean), and Vigna.

(Bean, NCI Thesaurus)