macrotyloma uniflorum meaning

• Noun: Macrotyloma uniflorum
  1. Twining herb of Old World tropics cultivated in India for food and fodder; sometimes placed in genus Dolichos
     - horse gram, horse grain, poor man's pulse, Dolichos biflorus

  Type of: legume, leguminous plant

  Part of: genus Macrotyloma, Macrotyloma

  Encyclopedia: Macrotyloma uniflorum

• Natural phenols in horse grams ( " Macrotyloma uniflorum " ) are mostly phenolic acids, namely syringic and sinapinic acids.
• In Telugu language, spoken locally, Ulava ( singular ) / Ulavalu ( plural ) means Horse gram, a legume with the botanical name Macrotyloma uniflorum and Charu or Chaaru means soup.
• The people of the ashmound tradition grew millets and pulses, some of which were domesticated in this part of India, for example, Brachiaria ramosa, Setaria verticillata, Vigna radiata and Macrotyloma uniflorum.
• Two staple millets " Brachiaria ramosa " and " Setaria verticillata " which are not common in modern cultivation were found in several sites while the commonest legumes were " Vigna radiata " and " Macrotyloma uniflorum ".
• For example, one study reports 12 sites in the southern Indian states of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh providing clear evidence of agriculture of pulses ( Vigna radiata and Macrotyloma uniflorum ), millet-grasses ( Brachiaria ramosa and Setaria verticillata ), wheats ( Triticum dicoccum, Triticum durum / aestivum ), barley ( Hordeum vulgare ), hyacinth bean ( Lablab purpureus ), pearl millet ( Pennisetum glaucum ), finger millet ( Eleusine coracana ), cotton ( Gossypium sp . ), linseed ( Linum sp . ), as well as gathered fruits of Ziziphus and two Cucurbitaceae.

• "macrotyloma uniflorum" meaning in Chinese: [网络] 硬皮豆和长硬皮豆