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what does snail-flower mean?

SNAIL-FLOWER as NOUN

  1. Meaning
    • 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
    Synonym(s) Hypernyms(s) snail-flower is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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what does snail flower mean?

SNAIL FLOWER as NOUN

  1. Meaning
    • 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
    Synonym(s) Hypernyms(s) snail flower is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

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