Phaseolus

noun

herbs of warm regions including most American beans

• Syn: ↑genus Phaseolus

• Hypernyms: ↑rosid dicot genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Papilionoideae, ↑subfamily Papilionoideae

• Member Meronyms:

↑common bean, ↑common bean plant, ↑Phaseolus vulgaris, ↑kidney bean, ↑frijol, ↑frijole, ↑green bean, ↑wax bean, ↑lima bean, ↑lima bean plant, ↑Phaseolus limensis, ↑sieva bean, ↑butter bean, ↑butter-bean plant, ↑Phaseolus lunatus, ↑tepary bean, ↑Phaseolus acutifolius latifolius

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\\fəˈsēələs\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Latin, diminutive of phaselus, a bean, from Greek phasēlos

: a genus of herbs (family Leguminosae) which are widely distributed throughout warm regions, which include most of the true American beans, and whose flowers are in axillary racemes or panicles with the corolla having a spirally twisted keel — see bean 1b, lima bean, mung bean, sieva bean