Definition of Florida 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.


Definition of Florida bean

1. Noun. The large, roundish, flattened seed of ''Mucuna urens''. ¹

2. Noun. The large seed of ''Entada scandens''. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Florida bean

1. The large, roundish, flattened seed of Mucuna urens. See Bean. One of the very large seeds of the Entada scandens. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Florida Bean

floribundas
florican
floricane
floricanes
floricans
floricmous
floricomous
floricultural
floriculture
floricultures
floriculturist
floriculturists
florid
florid oral papillomatosis
florid osseous dysplasia
florida bean (current term)
florida selaginella
florider
florides
floridest
floridities
floridity
floridly
floridness
floridnesses
florier
floriest
floriferous

Literary usage of Florida bean

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Breeding Crop Plants by Herbert Kendall Hayes, Ralph John Garber (1921)
"The florida bean has a pubescence of whitish stiff hairs on its leaf b(ids and young shoots while the ripe pods are covered with brownish black, woolly,, ..."

2. Exhibition ...: Hebron city of the patriarchs : list of exhibits at the by Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association, Boston, Ruth Lehrer, A. Harold Fisch, Murray Roston (1874)
"florida bean Jewelry. — This firm ingeniously adapts the florida bean to ornaments of jewelry, consisting of lockets, brooches, sleeve-buttons, ..."

3. The Encyclopedia of Practical Horticulture: A Reference System of Commercial by Granville Lowther, William Worthington (1914)
"florida bean, the fruit of a West India, leguminous climber often washed up on the coast of Florida. Sea bean, the fruit of a climbing shrub growing in ..."

4. Flora of Miami: Being Descriptions of the Seed-plants Growing Naturally on by John Kunkel Small (1913)
"FLORIDA-BEAN. 20. GALACTIA P. Br. Vines, or erect partially woody plants. Leaflets 3, or rarely 1, 5, or 7. Panicles raceme-like. _ Calyx 2-lipped, ..."

5. The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents: Travels and Explorations of the by Jesuits, Reuben Gold Thwaites (1900)
"The fruit here referred to is probably the " sea-bean " or ' florida bean;" a round, polished, scarlet seed obtained from the West Indian "bead-tree" or ..."

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