stizolobium deeringiana

Questions about stizolobium deeringiana

What does stizolobium deeringiana mean?

stizolobium deeringiana 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 stizolobium deeringiana?

Close synonyms include cowage, velvet bean, Bengal bean, Benghal bean, Florida bean. 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 stizolobium deeringiana a common word?

stizolobium deeringiana 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.