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    VELVET BEAN

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     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 grazingplay

    Synonyms:

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

    Classified under:

    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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