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.

WordNet

Flor"i*da bean"
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) (a) The large, roundish, flattened seed of Mucuna urens. See under Bean. (b) One of the very large seeds of the Entada scandens.

Webster 1913