GENUS LABLAB

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Lablab mean? 

• GENUS LABLAB (noun)
  The noun GENUS LABLAB has 1 sense:

1. one species: hyacinth bean

  Familiarity information: GENUS LABLAB used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS LABLAB (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One species: hyacinth bean

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Lablab; Lablab

Hypernyms ("genus Lablab" is a kind of...):

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "genus 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 ("genus Lablab" is a member of...):

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