black-eyed pea

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.