hyacinth bean English

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hyacinth bean

— noun 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

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bonavist

Indian bean

Egyptian bean

pulses

beans

Lablab purpureus

Dolichos lablab

lentil

Tonga bean