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n. (context botany English) Any of the genus ''Vigna'' of fabaceous plants, including a number of cultivated legumes.
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Vigna is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae, with a pantropical distribution. It includes some well-known cultivated species, including many types of beans. Some are former members of the genus Phaseolus. According to Hortus Third, Vigna differs from Phaseolus in biochemistry and pollen structure, and in details of the style and stipules.
Vigna are herbs or occasionally subshrubs. The leaves are pinnate, divided into 3 leaflets. The inflorescence is a raceme of yellow, blue, or purple pea flowers. The fruit is a legume pod of varying shape containing seeds.
Familiar food species include the adzuki bean (V. angularis), the black gram (V. mungo), the cowpea (V. unguiculata), and the mung bean (V. radiata), which is used as a whole bean, a bean paste, or as bean sprouts.
The genus is named after Domenico Vigna, a seventeenth-century Italian botanist and director of the Orto botanico di Pisa.
Vigna is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Hernán Vigna (born 1977), Argentine footballer
- Giovanni Vigna (born circa-1925), Italian rugby league footballer of the 1950s
- Marino Vigna (born 1938), Italian cyclist
- Pierluigi Vigna (1933–2012), Italian judge
Usage examples of "vigna".
Though he had never been inside their palace on the Via della Vigna Nuova, when passing by he always slowed his pace a little to see into the spacious gardens with their antique Greek and Roman sculptures, and to study the architecture of Alberti, who had designed the stately building.
Six weeks you have both enjoyed the food at La Vigna, and I have slowly been losing my shirt.
Vasari to the Vigna Giulia, where they held long discourses upon matters of art.
But of the things outside the city, the Vigna, begun by Pope Clement VII.
Dr Lector's normally white face flushes as he creates for the Studiolo the gargling, choking words of the agonal Pier della Vigna, and as he thumbs his remote control, the images of della Vigna and Judas with his bowels out alternate on the large field of the hanging drop cloth.
Dr Lector's normally white face flushes as he creates for the Studiolo the gargling, choking words of the agonal Pier delta Vigna, and as he thumbs his remote control, the images of delta Vigna and Judas with his bowels out alternate on the large field of the hanging drop cloth.