phaseolus caracalla

Questions about phaseolus caracalla

What does phaseolus caracalla mean?

phaseolus caracalla means "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".

What is another word for phaseolus caracalla?

Close synonyms include snailflower, snail-flower, snail flower, snail bean, corkscrew flower. 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 phaseolus caracalla a common word?

phaseolus caracalla 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.