Black-eyed

Watermelon, okra, yams, black-eyed peas and some peppers are all indigenous to Africa.

The pale, black-eyed child started to pull harder at the mother's dress.

Ziri saw what he called a "black-eyed girl."

BEC refers to black-eyed children.

Black-eyed peas are a staple in Southern cuisine.

Black-eyed peas are a symbol of good luck.

Black-eyed beans are a Southern staple.

I soaked the black-eyed beans overnight.

She cooked black-eyed beans for luck.

They added black-eyed beans to the soup.

This morning Keegan looks blacker-haired and blacker-eyed than ever before. The cold has plucked extra color into his cheeks and nose, and his outsized ears are flower-pot red.

Equally intolerable to her family was her desire, when the time came, to go with the blackest-eyed teenage boy in the tabor.

The black pup sits there, listening, watching. Momma looks at him. “If you aren’t the blackest-eyed dog I’ve ever seen,” she says. “We'll start calling you Blacky.[…]”

black-eyed pea

black-eyed Susan