vempali meaning in english

[Tel.] n. The purple Galega, Tephrosia purpurea. A small wild shrub with a pink flower and a leaf resembling that of the Indigo plant. banapunkhi, manikacamu. It has several species called muluvempali the thorny sort, jidduvempali the gummy kind, velivempali the whitish and peddavempali the giant species.