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n. - Any of several erect or climbing woody plants of a particular genus.

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Usage examples (6)
  • The cover may be legumes (pueraria, centrosema, crotalaria, mucuna) or grasses.
  • 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;...
  • I have little doubt with respect to their acting in a similar way with mucuna.
  • 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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