Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of leguminous climbing herbs and shrubs of the tribe Phaseoleæ, characterized by showy flowers with the banner smaller than the wings or the acute keel, and anthers of two shapes.
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- noun any of several erect or climbing woody plants of the genus Mucuna; widespread in tropics of both hemispheres
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Examples
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Including a green manure crop such as mucuna in the minor season did not result in better performance of maize than of second season cowpea, but did have a pronounced residual effect on the succeeding maize crop.
1. Soil constraints on sustainable plant production in the tropics. 1992
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They are in all manner of shapes, strings of mucuna and poison-beans; carved images stuck over with feathers and tassels; padlocks with a cowrie or a mirror set in them; horns full of mysterious
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
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The cover may be legumes (pueraria, centrosema, crotalaria, mucuna) or grasses.
1.1. Forests 1982
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Dr. Heubener, of Bethlehem, has employed the short, rigid hairs of the involucre as a substitute for those of mucuna, and has found them equally anthelmintic.
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I have little doubt with respect to their acting in a similar way with mucuna.
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They are in all manner of shapes, strings of mucuna and poison-beans; carved images stuck over with feathers and tassels; padlocks with a cowrie or a mirror set in them; horns full of mysterious "medicine;" iron - tipped poles; bones; birds 'beaks and talons; skins of snakes and leopards, and so forth.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 Richard Francis Burton 1855
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