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n. - West Indian forage plant cultivated in southern United States as forage and to improve soil.

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Usage examples (4)
  • It also can survive and spread on beggarweed and other weeds common to the Southeast.
  • Cowpeas, soja beans, beggarweed, velvet beans, alfalfa and melilotus can all be grown in the pecan area.
  • On fairly good land this will be sufficient, but on poorer ground the land should be continued in cultivation another year, sowing it down in beggarweed, cowpeas, soja...
  • Large amounts of nitrogen are gathered by leguminous crops; cowpeas, vetch, beggarweed, velvet beans, alfalfa and others may be planted to advantage, resulting in a...
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