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bonavist
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Noun bonavist has 1 sense
- bonavist(n = noun.plant) dolichos lablab, egyptian bean, hyacinth bean, indian bean, lablab purpureus - 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; Array is a member of genus lablab, lablab
is a kind of vine
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