noun
herbs or woody vines of mainly American tropics and subtropics
• Syn: ↑Canavalia
• Hypernyms: ↑rosid dicot genus
• Member Holonyms: ↑Papilionoideae, ↑subfamily Papilionoideae
• Member Meronyms: ↑jack bean, ↑wonder bean, ↑giant stock bean, ↑Canavalia ensiformis, ↑sword bean, ↑Canavalia gladiata
Useful english dictionary. 2012.