CANAVALIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Canavalia mean? 

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

1. herbs or woody vines of mainly American tropics and subtropics

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CANAVALIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Herbs or woody vines of mainly American tropics and subtropics

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Canavalia; genus Canavalia

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Canavalia"):

Canavalia ensiformis; giant stock bean; jack bean; wonder bean (annual semi-erect bushy plant of tropical South America bearing long pods with white seeds grown especially for forage)

Canavalia gladiata; sword bean (twining tropical Old World plant bearing long pods usually with red or brown beans; long cultivated in Orient for food)

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

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

 Context examples 

A mannose-binding lectin originally isolated from jack-bean, Canavalia ensiformis.

(Concanavalin A, NCI Thesaurus)