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Definition of Genus mucuna

1. Noun. Genus of tropical herbs and woody vines having trifoliate leaves and showy flowers in axillary clusters.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Mucuna

Literary usage of Genus mucuna

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

1. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Plant Industry, Division of Plant Industry, Queensland (1910)
"She also emphasized the fact that the Florida velvet bean and allied plants constitute a distinct genus from Mucuna, pointing out that the genus Mucuna ..."

2. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1902)
"V.-26. brittle hairs, which grow on the outside of the pods of plants of the genus Mucuna, natives of the tropical parts of America and Asia. ..."

3. Cover Crops in West Africa: Contributing to Sustainable Agriculture by Daniel Buckles (1998)
"The genus Mucuna is large (>100 species) and includes 5 or more cultivated species, but the taxonomy is confused and has not been examined using modem ..."

4. Cover Crops in Hillside Agriculture: Farmer Innovation with Mucuna by Daniel Buckles, Bernard Triomphe, Gustavo Sain (1998)
"The genus Mucuna (Adans), belonging to the Fabaceae family, covers perhaps 100 species of annual and perennial legumes, including the annual velvetbean. ..."

5. Medicinal Plants: Being Descriptions with Original Figures of the Principal ...by Robert Bentley, Henry Trimen by Robert Bentley, Henry Trimen (1880)
"genus mucuna,« Adans. B. & H., Gen., i, p. 533. Baill., Hist. P1., ii, p. 248. Species about 22, natives of tropical countries in both hemispheres. 78. ..."

6. Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants by Sir Joseph Paxton (1837)
"CULTURE OF THE genus mucuna, OR COW-ITCH. ALL the species of this genus are tender climbing stove plants ; there are, however, but a few that may be ..."

7. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1878)
"COW AGE, COW'HAGE, or COW'ITCH, consists of short, slender, brittle hairs, which grow on the outside of the pods of plants of the genus Mucuna, COWBERRY. ..."

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