VELVET BEAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does velvet bean mean? 

• VELVET BEAN (noun)
  The noun VELVET BEAN has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: VELVET BEAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VELVET BEAN (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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

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

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)