velvet bean

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

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  cowage , Bengal bean , Benghal bean , Florida bean , Mucuna pruriens utilis , Mucuna deeringiana , Mucuna aterrima , Stizolobium deeringiana