PSOPHOCARPUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Psophocarpus mean? 

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

1. species of tropical Asian and African climbing herbs

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PSOPHOCARPUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Species of tropical Asian and African climbing herbs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Psophocarpus; Psophocarpus

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Psophocarpus"):

goa bean; goa bean vine; Manila bean; Psophocarpus tetragonolobus; winged bean; winged pea (a tuberous twining annual vine bearing clusters of purplish flowers and pods with four jagged wings; Old World tropics)

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

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