VIGNA UNGUICULATA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Vigna unguiculata mean? 

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

1. sprawling Old World annual cultivated especially in southern United States for food and forage and green manure

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• VIGNA UNGUICULATA (noun)

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Meaning:

Sprawling Old World annual cultivated especially in southern United States for food and forage and green manure

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

black-eyed pea; cowpea; cowpea plant; Vigna sinensis; Vigna unguiculata

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

legume; leguminous plant (an erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae)

Meronyms (parts of "Vigna unguiculata"):

black-eyed pea; cowpea (eaten fresh as shell beans or dried)

black-eyed pea; cowpea (fruit or seed of the cowpea plant)

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

genus Vigna; Vigna (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)