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Meanings of velvet bean in English

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.

cowage
Bengal bean
Benghal bean
Florida bean
Mucuna pruriens utilis

Mucuna deeringiana
Mucuna aterrima
Stizolobium deeringiana

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Examples for "cowage"

Others carried bags filled with hairs of picapica;* (* Dolichos pruriens (cowage).) 
 Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of Amer... 

Usage of velvet bean in English

The method is to propagate bacteria for each of the various leguminous plants such as clover, alfalfa, soy beans, cow peas, tares, and velvet beans. 
 Three Acres and Liberty 

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Meanings of velvet bean in English