florida bean

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   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

   Synonymscowagevelvet beanBengal beanBenghal beanMucuna pruriens utilisMucuna deeringianaMucuna aterrimaStizolobium deeringiana

   Broadermucuna

   Partscowage

Questions about florida bean

What does florida bean mean?

florida 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 florida bean?

Close synonyms include cowage, velvet bean, Bengal bean, Benghal 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 florida bean a common word?

florida 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.