English word senses marked with lifeform category "Vigna beans"
Parent categories: Phaseoleae tribe plants, Vegetables, Legumes, Foods, Plants, Fabales order plants, Shrubs, Trees, Eating, Food and drink, Lifeforms, Human behaviour, Life, Human, Nature
Total 36 word senses
- Bambara groundnut (Noun) The edible seed of an African plant of species Vigna subterranea, which produces its seeds underground, like peanuts.
- Bambara nut (Noun) Synonym of Bambara groundnut
- asparagus bean (Noun) A bean of east Asia with long, edible pods, a yardlong bean (Vigna unguiculata subsp. sesquipedalis).
- azuki bean (Noun) An annual vine (Vigna angularis), widely grown throughout East Asia and the Himalayas for its small bean.
- beach pea (Noun) Various plants in family Fabaceae:; Vigna marina (notched cowpea, nanea).
- beach pea (Noun) Various plants in family Fabaceae:; Lathyrus japonicus (sea pea, circumpolar pea, sea vetchling), a legume native to temperate coastal areas of Asia, Europe, and North and South America.
- beach pea (Noun) Various plants in family Fabaceae:; Lathyrus littoralis (silky beach pea).
- beach pea (Noun) Various plants in family Fabaceae:; Galactia (milk pea, wild pea).
- bean sprout (Noun) A sprout of the mung bean.
- black gram (Noun) A bean from the seed of Vigna mungo, native to the Indian subcontinent.
- black-eyed pea (Noun) An African leguminous plant, of the species Vigna unguiculata, widely cultivated as food and forage, specifically Vigna unguiculata subsp. unguiculata.
- catjang (Noun) A cowpea native to Africa, Vigna unguiculata, sometimes Vigna unguiculata subsp. cylindrica, a densely-branched shrubby perennial grown for animal fodder or food.
- cowpea (Noun) Any of the plants in the species Vigna unguiculata, including the black-eyed pea.
- crowder pea (Noun) A type of cowpea, Vigna unguiculata, closely related to the black-eyed pea, but without the characteristic black spot.
- earth pea (Noun) Vigna subterranea (Bambara groundnut, jugo bean)
- frijol (Noun) Any cultivated bean of the genus Phaseolus, especially the black seed of a variety of Phaseolus vulgaris.
- green gram (Noun) A bean from the seed of Vigna radiata, which is native to Bangladesh and India.
- groundnut (Noun) A plant which bears its nutlike seeds underground, such as a peanut (Arachis hypogaea) or a Bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea).
- jugo bean (Noun) Bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea)
- maloga bean (Noun) The pencil yam, Vigna lanceolata.
- matki (Noun) The plant Vigna aconitifolia, moth bean.
- moth (Noun) The plant Vigna aconitifolia, moth bean.
- moth bean (Noun) Any legume of species Vigna aconitifolia.
- mung (Noun) mung bean (Vigna radiata, syn. Phaseolus aureus), cultivated for its sprouts.
- mung bean (Noun) The seed of Vigna radiata, native to South Asia.
- ndengu (Noun) green gram (bean of Vigna radiata)
- red bean (Noun) The azuki bean (Vigna angularis), most common in East Asia.
- red bean (Noun) The rice bean (Vigna umbellata).
- red bean (Noun) Any of various red varieties of the common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris), including the kidney bean, Honduran red bean, and Salvadoran red bean.
- red bean (Noun) A paste made of azuki beans.
- rice bean (Noun) A bean plant of species Vigna umbellata, a food and fodder crop of Asia.
- snake bean (Noun) Vigna unguiculata subsp. sesquipedalis, a widely cultivated edible legume.
- string bean (Noun) Any long, slender green bean.; A yardlong bean (Vigna unguiculata subsp. sesquipedalis)
- urad (Noun) Vigna mungo, a South Asian bean used to make dal.
- urad dal (Noun) A bean (Vigna mungo) or a dish made from it.
- yardlong bean (Noun) A vigorous climbing annual vine (Vigna unguiculata subsp. sesquipedalis) grown primarily for its strikingly long (35-75 cm) immature pods with uses very similar to that of a green bean.
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