genus canavalia

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   herbs or woody vines of mainly American tropics and subtropics

   SynonymsCanavalia

   Broaderrosid dicot genus

   Part ofPapilionoideae

Questions about genus canavalia

What does genus canavalia mean?

genus canavalia means "herbs or woody vines of mainly American tropics and subtropics".

What is another word for genus canavalia?

Close synonyms include Canavalia. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is genus canavalia a common word?

genus canavalia is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.