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MUCUNA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of several erect or climbing woody plants of the genus Mucuna; widespread in tropics of both hemispheres
Classified under:
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)
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