Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun snailflower

1 sense of snailflower

Sense 1
snailflower, snail-flower, snail flower, snail bean, corkscrew flower, Vigna caracalla, Phaseolus caracalla -- (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)
       => legume, leguminous plant -- (an erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae)