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Cowpea

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Noun

1. black-eyed pea, cowpea

fruit or seed of the cowpea plant

2. black-eyed pea, cowpea, cowpea plant, vigna sinensis, vigna unguiculata

sprawling Old World annual cultivated especially in southern United States for food and forage and green manure

3. black-eyed pea, cowpea

eaten fresh as shell beans or dried

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Cowpea

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noun
1. 
a leguminous tropical climbing plant, Vigna sinensis, producing long pods containing edible pealike seeds: grown for animal fodder and sometimes as human food
2. Also called: black-eyed pea
the seed of this plant

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Cowpea

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noun
1. 
a viny annual plant (Vigna unguiculata) of the pea family, bearing seeds in slender pods: grown in S U.S. for forage, green manure, etc.
2. 
the edible seed of this plant, cooked as a vegetable; black-eyed pea

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Cowpea

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n.
1. An annual African plant (Vigna unguiculata) in the pea family, widely cultivated in warm regions for food, forage, and soil improvement.
2. An edible seed of this plant. In both senses also called black-eyed pea.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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