单词 | velvet bean |
释义 | velvet bean in American English US a coarse, twining, leguminous annual vine (Stizolobium deeringianum) grown for forage velvet bean in American Englishnoun a vine, Mucuna deeringiana, of the legume family, having long clusters of purplish flowers and densely hairy pods, grown in warm regions for forage or as an ornamental Word origin [1895–1900, Amer.]This word is first recorded in the period 1895–1900. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Marxism, backwind, flamenco, freewheel, hit-and-runExamples of 'velvet bean' in a sentence |
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