cowpea plant

cowpea plant
noun
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: ↑black-eyed pea, ↑cowpea

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