COWPEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cowpea mean? 

• COWPEA (noun)
  The noun COWPEA has 3 senses:

1. fruit or seed of the cowpea plant

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

3. eaten fresh as shell beans or dried

  Familiarity information: COWPEA used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COWPEA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fruit or seed of the cowpea plant

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

black-eyed pea; cowpea

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

black-eyed pea; cowpea; cowpea plant; Vigna sinensis; Vigna unguiculata

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:

Eaten fresh as shell beans or dried

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

black-eyed pea; cowpea

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)