AMPHICARPA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Amphicarpa mean? 

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

1. very small genus of twining vines of North America and Asia: hog peanut

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• AMPHICARPA (noun)

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Meaning:

Very small genus of twining vines of North America and Asia: hog peanut

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Amphicarpa; Amphicarpaea; genus Amphicarpa; genus Amphicarpaea

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Amphicarpa"):

Amphicarpa bracteata; Amphicarpaea bracteata; hog peanut; wild peanut (vine widely distributed in eastern North America producing racemes of purple to maroon flowers and abundant (usually subterranean) edible one-seeded pods resembling peanuts)

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

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