VELVET BEAN

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

The annual woody vine of Asia having long clusters of purplish flowers and densely hairy pods; cultivated in southern United States for green manure and grazing

Synonyms:

Bengal bean; Benghal bean; cowage; Florida bean; Mucuna aterrima; Mucuna deeringiana; Mucuna pruriens utilis; Stizolobium deeringiana; velvet bean

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("velvet bean" is a kind of...):

mucuna (any of several erect or climbing woody plants of the genus Mucuna; widespread in tropics of both hemispheres)

Meronyms (parts of "velvet bean"):

cowage (pods of the cowage plant or the stinging hairs covering them; used as a vermifuge when mixed with e.g. honey)

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