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

• benghal bean
• cowage
• florida bean
• mucuna aterrima
• mucuna deeringiana
• mucuna pruriens utilis
• stizolobium deeringiana
• velvet bean

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

• mucuna