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velvet bean

NOUN
  1. 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

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  • The researchers rubbed roughly the same number of cowhage spicules the itch-inducing spiky bits of that plant, also known as velvet bean on three locations: the front of the ankle; on the underside of the forearm; and under the shoulder blade on the back. A Dip in the Pool Does an Aging Body Good
  • Another herb—red velvet bean plant—is used widely in Indian Ayurvedic medicine and contains L-dopa, which is converted to dopamine once it crosses the blood-brain barrier and might be used to treat Parkinson’s disease in higher doses. You Staying Young
  • This leguminous climbing plant is commonly called the velvet bean.
  • 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 great saving in fertilizer bills, and besides, adding the necessary vegetable matter and humus. The Pecan and its Culture
  • The best of such crops are legumes, including the vigorous velvet bean and lablab bean. 1: Basics of agricultural development
  • In general, the same seed bed preparations are recommended for velvet bean as for maize, but a fine tilth is not essential.
  • Ground which produced a heavy crop of cowpeas, velvet beans or beggarweed the previous season is excellent for the purpose. The Pecan and its Culture
  • Cowpeas, soja beans, beggarweed, velvet beans, alfalfa and melilotus can all be grown in the pecan area. The Pecan and its Culture
  • 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 beans, or velvet beans. The Pecan and its Culture
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