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Definition of Genus Pachyrhizus
1. Noun. Small genus of tropical vines having tuberous roots.
Exact synonyms: Pachyrhizus
Generic synonyms: Rosid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Papilionoideae, Subfamily Papilionoideae
Member holonyms: Pachyrhizus Erosus, Yam Bean, Pachyrhizus Tuberosus, Potato Bean, Yam Bean
Generic synonyms: Rosid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Papilionoideae, Subfamily Papilionoideae
Member holonyms: Pachyrhizus Erosus, Yam Bean, Pachyrhizus Tuberosus, Potato Bean, Yam Bean
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Pachyrhizus
Literary usage of Genus Pachyrhizus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Description of Some Chinese Vegetable Food Materials and Their Nutritive by Walter Charles Blasdale (1899)
"... authority2 that there is a cultivated form of the yam bean properly referred
to Dolichos tuberosus, but later transferred to the genus Pachyrhizus by ..."