pachyrhizus
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1. small genus of tropical vines having tuberous roots (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | rosid dicot genus, |
| definition | : | a genus of dicotyledonous plants (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | pachyrhizus erosus, yam bean, |
| definition | : | Central American twining plant with edible roots and pods; large tubers are eaten raw or cooked especially when young and young pods must be thoroughly cooked; pods and seeds also yield rotenone and oils (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | pachyrhizus tuberosus, potato bean, yam bean, |
| definition | : | twining plant of Amazon basin having large edible roots (noun.plant) |
| member meronym | : | papilionoideae, subfamily papilionoideae, |
| definition | : | alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae (noun.plant) |
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