pods of the cowage plant or the stinging hairs covering them; used as a vermifuge when mixed with e.g. honey
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
[ Syn: velvet bean , bengal bean , benghal bean , florida bean , mucuna pruriens utilis , mucuna deeringiana , mucuna aterrima , stizolobium deeringiana ]