bengal bean

Questions about bengal bean

What does bengal bean mean?

bengal bean means "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".

What is another word for bengal bean?

Close synonyms include cowage, velvet bean, Benghal bean, Florida bean, Mucuna pruriens utilis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bengal bean a common word?

bengal bean is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.