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COWAGE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Synonyms:
Bengal bean; Benghal bean; cowage; Florida bean; Mucuna aterrima; Mucuna deeringiana; Mucuna pruriens utilis; Stizolobium deeringiana; velvet bean
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("cowage" is a kind of...):
mucuna (any of several erect or climbing woody plants of the genus Mucuna; widespread in tropics of both hemispheres)
Meronyms (parts of "cowage"):
cowage (pods of the cowage plant or the stinging hairs covering them; used as a vermifuge when mixed with e.g. honey)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Pods of the cowage plant or the stinging hairs covering them; used as a vermifuge when mixed with e.g. honey
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("cowage" is a kind of...):
pod; seedpod (a several-seeded dehiscent fruit as e.g. of a leguminous plant)
Holonyms ("cowage" is a part of...):
Bengal bean; Benghal bean; cowage; Florida bean; Mucuna aterrima; Mucuna deeringiana; Mucuna pruriens utilis; Stizolobium deeringiana; velvet bean (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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