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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   Any of the plants in the species Vigna unguiculata, including the black-eyed pea.
2. 2
   eaten fresh as shell beans or dried wordnet
3. 3
   sprawling Old World annual cultivated especially in southern United States for food and forage and green manure wordnet
4. 4
   fruit or seed of the cowpea plant wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

black eyed peablack-eyed peacowpea plantfield peavigna sinensisvigna unguiculata

Etymology

From cow + pea.

Related phrases

black eyed peavigna unguiculata

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