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Cowpea

nounverified·updated May 18, 2026

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

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Senses

Wordset Dictionary

eaten fresh as shell beans or dried

Wordset Dictionary

fruit or seed of the cowpea plant

Classifications

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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

synonym
black-eyed pea
plural
Cowpeas
possessive
Cowpea's
pluralpossessive
Cowpeas'