cowage

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

• pods of the cowage plant or the stinging hairs covering them; used as a vermifuge when mixed with e.g. honey

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  velvet bean , Bengal bean , Benghal bean , Florida bean , Mucuna pruriens utilis , Mucuna deeringiana , Mucuna aterrima , Stizolobium deeringiana