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cowage
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun cowage has 2 senses
- cowage(n = noun.plant) Array - pods of the cowage plant or the stinging hairs covering them; used as a vermifuge when mixed with e.g. honey; Array is a part of bengal bean, benghal bean, cowage, florida bean, mucuna aterrima, mucuna deeringiana, mucuna pruriens utilis, stizolobium deeringiana, velvet bean
- cowage(n = noun.plant) bengal bean, benghal bean, florida bean, mucuna aterrima, mucuna deeringiana, mucuna pruriens utilis, stizolobium deeringiana, velvet bean - the annual woody vine of Asia having long clusters of purplish flowers and densely hairy pods; cultivated in southern United States for green manure and grazing; Array is a kind of mucuna
is a kind of pod, seedpod
has parts: cowage
OXFORD DICTIONARY
cowage, n. (also cowhage) a climbing plant, Mucuna pruritum, having hairy pods which cause stinging and itching.
Etymology
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