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phaseolus
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun phaseolus has 1 sense
- phaseolus(n = noun.plant) genus phaseolus - herbs of warm regions including most American beans; Array is a kind of rosid dicot genus
is a member of papilionoideae, subfamily papilionoideae
CIDE DICTIONARY
phaseolus, n. [L.].
A genus of leguminous plants, including the Lima bean, the kidney bean, the scarlet runner, etc. See Bean. [1913 Webster]
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