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MACROTYLOMA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Macrotyloma mean?
• MACROTYLOMA (noun)
The noun MACROTYLOMA has 1 sense:
1. annual or perennial vines of Africa and India and Australia; plants often placed in genus Dolichos
Familiarity information: MACROTYLOMA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Annual or perennial vines of Africa and India and Australia; plants often placed in genus Dolichos
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Macrotyloma; Macrotyloma
Hypernyms ("Macrotyloma" is a kind of...):
rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)
Meronyms (members of "Macrotyloma"):
Dolichos biflorus; horse grain; horse gram; Macrotyloma uniflorum; poor man's pulse (twining herb of Old World tropics cultivated in India for food and fodder; sometimes placed in genus Dolichos)
Holonyms ("Macrotyloma" is a member of...):
Papilionoideae; subfamily Papilionoideae (alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae)
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