cowageEnglish

cowage, Bengal bean, Benghal bean, Florida bean, Mucuna aterrima

Noun

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

English: cowage, velvet bean, Bengal bean, Benghal bean, Florida bean, Mucuna pruriens utilis, Mucuna deeringiana, Mucuna aterrima, Stizolobium deeringiana

Pods of the cowage plant or the stinging hairs covering them, used as a vermifuge when mixed with e.g. honey

English: cowage

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