English
Detailed Synonyms for velvet bean in English
velvet bean:
velvet bean [the ~] nom
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the 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 1the velvet bean; the Benghal bean; the cowage; the Florida bean; the Mucuna aterrima; the Mucuna deeringiana; the Mucuna pruriens utilis; the Stizolobium deeringiana; the Bengal 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 1