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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.
Generic synonyms: Mucuna
Terms within: Cowage
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
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Florida Bean
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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