cowpea

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Definition of cowpea in English English dictionary: the black-eyed pea, Vigna unguiculata; the black-eyed pea; The seed of one or more leguminous plants of the genus Dolichos; also, the plant itself; eaten fresh as shell beans or dried; sprawling Old World annual cultivated especially in southern United States for food and forage and green manure; sprawling Old World annual cultivated especially in southern United States for food and forage and green manure fruit or seed of the cowpea plant; Many varieties are cultivated in the southern part of the United States; It is extensively cultivated in the Southern United States for fodder, and the seed is used as food for man; or black-eyed pea Any of the cultivated forms of the annual legume Vigna unguiculata. The plants are believed to be native to India and the Middle East but in early times were cultivated in China. The compound leaves have three leaflets. The white, purple, or pale-yellow flowers usually grow in twos or threes at the ends of long stalks. The pods are long and cylindrical. In the southern U.S. the cowpea is grown extensively as a hay crop, as a cover or green-manure crop, or for the edible beans; {i} annual legume grown in the southern USA for forage and soil improvement, black-eyed pea; edible seed of the cowpea plant; Catjang found throughout the tropics of the Old World; fruit or seed of the cowpea plant; A leguminous plant Vigna Sinensis, syn
cowpeas: plural of cowpea

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