MUCUNA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mucuna mean? 

• MUCUNA (noun)
  The noun MUCUNA has 1 sense:

1. any of several erect or climbing woody plants of the genus Mucuna; widespread in tropics of both hemispheres

  Familiarity information: MUCUNA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MUCUNA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several erect or climbing woody plants of the genus Mucuna; widespread in tropics of both hemispheres

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("mucuna" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mucuna"):

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

Holonyms ("mucuna" is a member of...):

genus Mucuna; genus Stizolobium; Stizolobium (genus of tropical herbs and woody vines having trifoliate leaves and showy flowers in axillary clusters)