centrosema

English Thesaurus

1. a genus of chiefly tropical American vines of the family Leguminosae having trifoliate leaves and large flowers (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	rosid dicot genus,
definition	:	a genus of dicotyledonous plants (noun.plant)

member holonym	:	butterfly pea, centrosema virginianum,
definition	:	large-flowered weakly twining or prostrate vine of New Jersey to tropical eastern North America, sometimes cultivated for its purple and white flowers (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	papilionoideae, subfamily papilionoideae,
definition	:	alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae (noun.plant)