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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A shrub (Cajanus cajan) of the pea family, having trifoliolate leaves, yellow to reddish flowers, and small edible seeds, and widely cultivated in tropical regions.
  • noun A seed of this plant.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See Cajanus.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A tropical African plant (Cajanus cajan, formerly Cajanus indicus), having edible seeds.
  • noun The edible seed of this plant; dahl

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun small highly nutritious seed of the tropical pigeon-pea plant
  • noun tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods; much cultivated in the tropics

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From the use of its seeds as pigeon feed.]

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