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snail bean

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Noun

perennial tropical American vine cultivated for its racemes of showy yellow and purple flowers having the corolla keel coiled like a snail shell; sometimes placed in genus Phaseolus

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snailflower snail-flower snail flower corkscrew flower Vigna caracalla Phaseolus caracalla

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