Green gram and Leguminous plant

Green gram noun - Erect bushy annual widely cultivated in warm regions of India and Indonesia and United States for forage and especially its edible seeds; chief source of bean sprouts used in Chinese cookery; sometimes placed in genus Phaseolus.

Leguminous plant and green gram are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Leguminous plant" instead a noun phrase "Green gram".

Leguminous plant noun - An erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae.

Green gram and leguminous plant are semantically related. Sometimes you can replace phrase "Green gram" with "Leguminous plant", this phrases are similar.