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BENGAL 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
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Bengal 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 "Bengal 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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