Florida bean Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. 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
    Bengal bean; Benghal bean; cowage; Mucuna pruriens utilis; Stizolobium deeringiana; velvet bean; Mucuna deeringiana; Mucuna aterrima.

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Definitions
  1. (Bot.), the seed of Mucuna urens, a West Indian plant. The seeds are washed up on the Florida shore, and are often polished and made into ornaments.

Webster 1913