Noun
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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
- velvet bean - bengal bean - benghal bean - florida bean - mucuna pruriens utilis - mucuna deeringiana - mucuna aterrima - stizolobium deeringiana -
pods of the cowage plant or the stinging hairs covering them
used as a vermifuge when mixed with e.g. honey