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COWPEA

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Eaten fresh as shell beans or dried

Synonyms:

black-eyed pea; cowpea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("cowpea" is a kind of...):

legume (the seedpod of a leguminous plant (such as peas or beans or lentils))

Holonyms ("cowpea" is a part of...):

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)

Sense 2

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:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("cowpea" is a kind of...):

legume; leguminous plant (an erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae)

Meronyms (parts of "cowpea"):

black-eyed pea; cowpea (eaten fresh as shell beans or dried)

black-eyed pea; cowpea (fruit or seed of the cowpea plant)

Holonyms ("cowpea" 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)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Fruit or seed of the cowpea plant

Synonyms:

black-eyed pea; cowpea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("cowpea" is a kind of...):

legume (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)

Holonyms ("cowpea" is a part of...):

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)

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