HyperDic: mucuna

English > 1 sense of the word mucuna:
NOUNplantmucunaany of several erect or climbing woody plants of the genus Mucuna
English > mucuna: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
MeaningAny of several erect or climbing woody plants of the genus Mucuna; widespread in tropics of both hemispheres.
Member ofgenus Mucuna, Stizolobium, genus Stizolobiumgenus of tropical herbs and woody vines having trifoliate leaves and showy flowers in axillary clusters
Narrowercowage, velvet bean, Bengal bean, Benghal bean, Florida bean, Mucuna pruriens utilis, Mucuna deeringiana, Mucuna aterrima, Stizolobium deeringianaThe annual woody vine of Asia having long clusters of purplish flowers and densely hairy pods
Broadershrub, bushA low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems
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