Genus of chiefly tropical vines often placed in genera Dipogon or Lablab or Macrotyloma

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Dolichos is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae , and the subfamily Faboideae . It is distributed in Africa and Asia . The lablab bean ( Lablab purpureus ) was formerly included in Dolichos . These are herbs and shrubs growing upright, ...

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Pea \Pea\, n.; pl. Peas or Pease . [OE. pese, fr. AS. pisa, or OF. peis, F. pois; both fr. L. pisum; cf. Gr. ?, ?. The final s was misunderstood in English as a plural ending. Cf. Pease .] (Bot.) A plant, and its fruit, of the genus Pisum , of many varieties, ...