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MUCUNA ATERRIMA

• MUCUNA ATERRIMA (noun)
The noun MUCUNA ATERRIMA 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

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• MUCUNA ATERRIMA (noun)

Sense 1

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

Hypernyms ("Mucuna aterrima" 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 "Mucuna aterrima"):

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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