genus Mucuna — noun genus of tropical herbs and woody vines having trifoliate leaves and showy flowers in axillary clusters • Syn: ↑Stizolobium, ↑genus Stizolobium • Hypernyms: ↑rosid dicot genus • Member Holonyms: ↑Papilionoideae, ↑subfam … Useful english dictionary
Stizolobium — noun genus of tropical herbs and woody vines having trifoliate leaves and showy flowers in axillary clusters • Syn: ↑genus Mucuna, ↑genus Stizolobium • Hypernyms: ↑rosid dicot genus • Member Holonyms: ↑Papilionoideae, ↑subfa … Useful english dictionary
rosid dicot genus — noun a genus of dicotyledonous plants • Hypernyms: ↑dicot genus, ↑magnoliopsid genus • Hyponyms: ↑Connarus, ↑genus Connarus, ↑Arachis, ↑genus Arachis, ↑Brya, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
Papilionoideae — noun alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae • Syn: ↑subfamily Papilionoideae • Hypernyms: ↑rosid dicot family • Hyponyms: ↑Medicago, ↑genus Medicago • … Useful english dictionary
subfamily Papilionoideae — noun alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae • Syn: ↑Papilionoideae • Hypernyms: ↑rosid dicot family • Hyponyms: ↑Medicago, ↑genus Medicago • Member Holonyms … Useful english dictionary
mucuna — noun any of several erect or climbing woody plants of the genus Mucuna; widespread in tropics of both hemispheres • Hypernyms: ↑shrub, ↑bush • Hyponyms: ↑cowage, ↑velvet bean, ↑Bengal bean, ↑Benghal bean, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
buffalo bean — noun or buffalo apple 1. [so called from its location in buffalo country] : ground plum 2. : any of certain African climbing legumes (genus Stizolobium) having a velvety seed pod and hairs which cause intolerable itching when they come in contact … Useful english dictionary
Mucuna pruriens — inflorescence Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae … Wikipedia
Mucuna — gigantea flowers Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae … Wikipedia
Bean — is a common name for large plant seeds of several genera of the family Fabaceae (formerly Leguminosae) used for human food or animal feed. Although beans usually means the seeds of bean plants, it can also mean (especially in the US) the whole… … Wikipedia