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Vigna

Vigna

9.3
A group of tropical plants, often vines or small herbs, that include the mung bean and cowpea
  • noun
  • /ˈvɪn.jə/
  • Specialized
translation icon : Vigna
  • Farmers often grow Vigna beans due to their resilience in tropical climates.

Examples

  • Chefs often use Vigna mung beans in salads for added protein and texture.

  • The Vigna plant is well-known for its ability to improve soil quality.

  • Vasari, it will be recalled, wrote that the relief showed Filarete and his assistants "going to take their pleasure in a vineyard vigna."

    Academic text (2012)

Compounds

Vigna caracalla
  • Specialized
9.9

A tropical climbing plant with yellow and purple spiral flowers called the corkscrew vine

Vigna radiata
  • Specialized
7.6

A bushy plant that grows in warm countries and produces edible mung beans and bean sprouts

Vigna unguiculata sesquipedalis
  • Specialized
9.9

A tropical plant like a bean that makes very long edible pods

Surface Forms

Vigna singular
Vignas plural

Etymology

Vigna comes from an old Latin and Italian word vigna, which means 'vine' or 'vineyard' and is like Spanish viña and French vigne. That's why the plant group called Vigna includes climbing plants and familiar beans like the mung bean and cowpea.