Florida bean

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(Bot.) The large, roundish, flattened seed of Mucuna urens. See under Bean.

Noun

1.

Florida bean - annual semi-woody vine of Asia having long clusters of purplish flowers and densely hairy pods; cultivated in southern United States for green manure and grazing Synonyms: Mucuna aterrima, Mucuna deeringiana, Mucuna pruriens utilis, Stizolobium deeringiana, velvet bean, Bengal bean, Benghal bean, cowage

Bengal bean, Benghal bean, cowage, mucuna, Mucuna aterrima, Mucuna deeringiana, Mucuna pruriens utilis, Stizolobium deeringiana, velvet bean