black-eyed pea

black-eyed pea
noun
1. fruit or seed of the cowpea plant
• Syn: ↑cowpea
• Hypernyms: ↑legume
• Part Holonyms: ↑cowpea, ↑cowpea plant, ↑Vigna unguiculata, ↑Vigna sinensis
2. sprawling Old World annual cultivated especially in southern United States for food and forage and green manure
• Hypernyms: ↑legume, ↑leguminous plant
• Member Holonyms: ↑Vigna, ↑genus Vigna
• Part Meronyms: ↑cowpea
3. eaten fresh as shell beans or dried
• Syn: ↑cowpea
• Hypernyms: ↑legume
• Part Holonyms: ↑cowpea, ↑cowpea plant, ↑Vigna unguiculata, ↑Vigna sinensis

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noun also blackeye pea
1. : cowpea 1
2. black-eyed pea : a tropical vine (Dolichos sphaerospermus) having a seed that is used in the West Indies for food

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/blak"uyd'/
cowpea.
[1720-30]

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black-eye bean , black-eyed bean, black-eye pea or black-eyed pea noun
1. The cowpea
2. (the seed of) a plant widely cultivated for its seed pods containing beans which are usually creamy-white with a ‘black eye’
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Main Entry: ↑black

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black-eyed pea,
the brownish seed of the cowpea, much used as food in the southern part of the United States.

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n. another term for cowpea

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/ˈblækˌaıd-/ noun, pl ⋯ peas [count]
chiefly US : a type of small, light bean that has a dark spot on it — called also (chiefly Brit) black-eyed bean (chiefly US) cowpea

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black-eyed pea [black-eyed pea] noun [usu pl](AmE) (BrE cowpea, black-eyed bean)
a small white bean with a black spot on it, eaten a lot in the US. A dish called hopping John (black-eyed peas and rice) is eaten in the southern US states on ↑New Year's Day because it is thought to bring good luck in the new year.
See also: ↑cowpea

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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  • black-eyed pea — [ ,blæk aıd pi ] noun count AMERICAN a small bean with a black spot eaten as food …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

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  • black-eyed pea — ☆ black eyed pea [blak′īd΄ ] n. COWPEA …   English World dictionary

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