cowpea

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the black-eyed pea, Vigna unguiculata
the black-eyed pea
The seed of one or more leguminous plants of the genus Dolichos; also, the plant itself
eaten fresh as shell beans or dried
sprawling Old World annual cultivated especially in southern United States for food and forage and green manure
sprawling Old World annual cultivated especially in southern United States for food and forage and green manure fruit or seed of the cowpea plant
Many varieties are cultivated in the southern part of the United States
It is extensively cultivated in the Southern United States for fodder, and the seed is used as food for man
or black-eyed pea Any of the cultivated forms of the annual legume Vigna unguiculata. The plants are believed to be native to India and the Middle East but in early times were cultivated in China. The compound leaves have three leaflets. The white, purple, or pale-yellow flowers usually grow in twos or threes at the ends of long stalks. The pods are long and cylindrical. In the southern U.S. the cowpea is grown extensively as a hay crop, as a cover or green-manure crop, or for the edible beans
{i} annual legume grown in the southern USA for forage and soil improvement, black-eyed pea; edible seed of the cowpea plant
Catjang found throughout the tropics of the Old World
fruit or seed of the cowpea plant
A leguminous plant Vigna Sinensis, syn
cowpeas
plural of cowpea
cowpea
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