snail-flower

WORDNET DICTIONARY

snail-flower(n = noun.plant) corkscrew flower, phaseolus caracalla, snail bean, snail flower, snailflower, vigna 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;

is a kind of legume, leguminous plant

is a member of genus vigna, vigna