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COWPEA PLANT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Sprawling Old World annual cultivated especially in southern United States for food and forage and green manure
Synonyms:
black-eyed pea; cowpea; cowpea plant; Vigna sinensis; Vigna unguiculata
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("cowpea plant" is a kind of...):
legume; leguminous plant (an erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae)
Meronyms (parts of "cowpea plant"):
black-eyed pea; cowpea (eaten fresh as shell beans or dried)
black-eyed pea; cowpea (fruit or seed of the cowpea plant)
Holonyms ("cowpea plant" is a member of...):
genus Vigna; Vigna (genus of vines or erect herbs having trifoliate leaves and yellowish or purplish flowers; of warm or tropical regions; most species often placed in genus Phaseolus)
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