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GENUS MUCUNA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Mucuna mean?
• GENUS MUCUNA (noun)
The noun GENUS MUCUNA has 1 sense:
1. genus of tropical herbs and woody vines having trifoliate leaves and showy flowers in axillary clusters
Familiarity information: GENUS MUCUNA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Genus of tropical herbs and woody vines having trifoliate leaves and showy flowers in axillary clusters
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Mucuna; genus Stizolobium; Stizolobium
Hypernyms ("genus Mucuna" is a kind of...):
rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)
Meronyms (members of "genus Mucuna"):
mucuna (any of several erect or climbing woody plants of the genus Mucuna; widespread in tropics of both hemispheres)
Holonyms ("genus Mucuna" is a member of...):
Papilionoideae; subfamily Papilionoideae (alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae)
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