cowpea
English Thesaurus
1. eaten fresh as shell beans or dried (noun.food)
| hypernym | : | legume, |
| definition | : | the seedpod of a leguminous plant (such as peas or beans or lentils) (noun.food) |
2. sprawling Old World annual cultivated especially in southern United States for food and forage and green manure (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | legume, leguminous plant, |
| definition | : | an erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae (noun.plant) |
| member meronym | : | genus vigna, vigna, |
| definition | : | 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 (noun.plant) |
3. fruit or seed of the cowpea plant (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | legume, |
| definition | : | the fruit or seed of any of various bean or pea plants consisting of a case that splits along both sides when ripe and having the seeds attach to one side of the case (noun.plant) |
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