Mucuna pruriens utilis
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Noun | 1. | Mucuna pruriens utilis - 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 Florida bean, Mucuna aterrima, Mucuna deeringiana, Stizolobium deeringiana, velvet bean, Bengal bean, Benghal bean, cowage mucuna - any of several erect or climbing woody plants of the genus Mucuna; widespread in tropics of both hemispheres 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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