Skip to definition.
Get the FREE one-click dictionary software for Windows or the iPhone/iPad and Android apps


Noun: Vigna caracalla
  1. Perennial tropical American vine cultivated for its racemes of showy yellow and purple flowers having the corolla keel coiled like a snail shell; sometimes placed in genus Phaseolus
    - snailflower, snail-flower, snail flower, snail bean, corkscrew flower, Phaseolus caracalla

Type of: legume, leguminous plant

Part of: genus Vigna, Vigna

Encyclopedia: Vigna caracalla

Nearest

vigilance
vigilance committee
vigilance man
vigilant
vigilante
vigilantism
vigilantly
Vigna
Vigna aconitifolia
Vigna angularis
Vigna caracalla
Vigna radiata
Vigna sesquipedalis
Vigna sinensis
Vigna unguiculata
Vigna unguiculata sesquipedalis
vigneron
vignette
vignetting
vigor
vigorish