cowpea
- noun
- /ˈkaʊˌpi/
- Specialized
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frijol de ojo negro
- The farmer harvested a large crop of cowpeas to sell at the local market.
Examples
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In many Southern dishes, cowpeas are a common ingredient, often used in salads and stews.
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The persistence of insect problems has led some to suggest transgenics—the genetic modification of organisms to carry genes from other species—as a possibility for improving cowpea.
Academic text (2008) -
To improve soil health, the gardener rotated cowpeas with other legumes in her planting schedule.
Synonyms
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3.4
A small pale bean with a black spot that people eat in the American South
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7.9
A type of bean with seeds packed tightly in the pod eaten as a vegetable
Compounds
- Specialized
A spreading annual plant that farmers grow for edible beans and animal feed
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Cowpea comes from putting cow and pea together. People named it this because its seeds look like peas and farmers often used it to feed cows. So a cowpea is the edible seed or pod of a legume grown for food and forage.