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Categories: Taxonbars with automatically added basionyms, Monotypic Fabaceae genera, Afrotropical realm flora, Nitrogen-fixing crops, Edible legumes
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hyacinth bean  bonavist  Indian bean  Egyptian bean  Lablab purpureus
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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 WordNet 3.0
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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 WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
A climbing leguminous plant (Lablab purpureus), with white or dark purple flowers, native to Africa, widely cultivated in the tropics. Wiktionary
The plant or its produce of seed. Wiktionary (translation)
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