hyacinth bean

hyacinth bean

n.

A twining vine (Dolichos lablab) of the Old World tropics, having purple or white flowers and edible pods and seeds. Also called lablab.

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hyacinth bean - perennial twining vine of Old World tropics having trifoliate leaves and racemes of fragrant purple pea-like flowers followed by maroon pods of edible seeds; grown as an ornamental and as a vegetable on the Indian subcontinent; sometimes placed in genus Dolichos bonavist, Dolichos lablab, Egyptian bean, Lablab purpureus, Indian bean genus Lablab, Lablab - one species: hyacinth bean vine - a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface