black-eyed pea

1. 1.

   fruit or seed of the cowpea plant

   Synonymscowpea

   Broaderlegume

   Part ofcowpea
2. 2.

   sprawling Old World annual cultivated especially in southern United States for food and forage and green manure

   Synonymscowpeacowpea plantVigna unguiculataVigna sinensis

   Broaderlegume

   Part ofVigna

   Partsblack-eyed peacowpea
3. 3.

   eaten fresh as shell beans or dried

   Synonymscowpea

   Broaderlegume

   Part ofcowpea

Questions about black-eyed pea

What does black-eyed pea mean?

black-eyed pea means "fruit or seed of the cowpea plant". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for black-eyed pea?

Close synonyms include cowpea, cowpea, cowpea plant, Vigna unguiculata, Vigna sinensis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is black-eyed pea a common word?

black-eyed pea is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.