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Noun: matki
Usage: Asia
  1. East Indian legume having hairy foliage and small yellow flowers followed by cylindrical pods; used especially in India for food and forage and as a soil conditioner; sometimes placed in genus Phaseolus
    - moth bean, Vigna aconitifolia, Phaseolus aconitifolius

Type of: legume, leguminous plant

Part of: genus Vigna, Vigna

Encyclopedia: Matki, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship