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Definition of Mucuna
1. Noun. Any of several erect or climbing woody plants of the genus Mucuna; widespread in tropics of both hemispheres.
Specialized synonyms: Bengal Bean, Benghal Bean, Cowage, Florida Bean, Mucuna Aterrima, Mucuna Deeringiana, Mucuna Pruriens Utilis, Stizolobium Deeringiana, Velvet Bean
Generic synonyms: Bush, Shrub
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mucuna
Literary usage of Mucuna
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cover Crops in West Africa: Contributing to Sustainable Agriculture by Daniel Buckles (1998)
"Bénin Abstract Various planting dates for mucuna in maize-mucuna intercrops were
tested to determine the competition between maize and mucuna; ..."
2. A Handbook of therapeutics by Sydney Ringer (1882)
"Drugs, as powdered tin and mucuna, may be employed to kill the worm by their
mechanical ... With the exception of powdered tin and mucuna, all the medicines ..."
3. Nature in Disease: Illustrated in Various Discourses and Essays. To which by Jacob Bigelow (1859)
"... mucuna PRURIENS: WITH REMARKS OS THE IRRITABILITY OF DIFFERENT TEXTURES.
THE Dolichos pruriens of Linnaeus, now called mucuna pruriens, and, in English, ..."
4. The Retrospect of Medicine by William Braithwaite (1860)
"Meil. Times and Gazette, Sept. 10, 1859, p. 268. 151.—External Use of mucuna
Prurient as an Excitant. By J. RHODES, Esq.. ..."
5. Materia Medica: For the Use of Students by John Barclay Biddle (1874)
"... boiled to Oj) ; dose for a child f§ss, every two or three hours, till it
affects the stomach and bowels ; or night and morning for several days. mucuna ..."
6. New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Edward Pollock Anschutz (1917)
"mucuna URENS NATURAL ... Dolichos pruriens, which the greater and modern authorities
in botanical matters considered an identical plant with mucuna urens. ..."
7. A Practical Treatise on Materia Medica and Therapeutics by Roberts Bartholow (1884)
"When by the use of a purgative, and by reason of fasting, intestinal worms are
uncovered and exposed to attack, it is held that the mucuna-hairs pierce the ..."
8. Cover Crops in West Africa: Contributing to Sustainable Agriculture by Daniel Buckles (1998)
"Bénin Abstract Various planting dates for mucuna in maize-mucuna intercrops were
tested to determine the competition between maize and mucuna; ..."
9. A Handbook of therapeutics by Sydney Ringer (1882)
"Drugs, as powdered tin and mucuna, may be employed to kill the worm by their
mechanical ... With the exception of powdered tin and mucuna, all the medicines ..."
10. Nature in Disease: Illustrated in Various Discourses and Essays. To which by Jacob Bigelow (1859)
"... mucuna PRURIENS: WITH REMARKS OS THE IRRITABILITY OF DIFFERENT TEXTURES.
THE Dolichos pruriens of Linnaeus, now called mucuna pruriens, and, in English, ..."
11. The Retrospect of Medicine by William Braithwaite (1860)
"Meil. Times and Gazette, Sept. 10, 1859, p. 268. 151.—External Use of mucuna
Prurient as an Excitant. By J. RHODES, Esq.. ..."
12. Materia Medica: For the Use of Students by John Barclay Biddle (1874)
"... boiled to Oj) ; dose for a child f§ss, every two or three hours, till it
affects the stomach and bowels ; or night and morning for several days. mucuna ..."
13. New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Edward Pollock Anschutz (1917)
"mucuna URENS NATURAL ... Dolichos pruriens, which the greater and modern authorities
in botanical matters considered an identical plant with mucuna urens. ..."
14. A Practical Treatise on Materia Medica and Therapeutics by Roberts Bartholow (1884)
"When by the use of a purgative, and by reason of fasting, intestinal worms are
uncovered and exposed to attack, it is held that the mucuna-hairs pierce the ..."
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