cowage

Other forms of cowage

plural

cowages·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cowage

What does cowage mean?

cowage means "pods of the cowage plant or the stinging hairs covering them; used as a vermifuge when mixed with e.g. honey". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cowage?

cowage has 2 syllables: co-wage. The stress falls on "co".

What is another word for cowage?

Close synonyms include velvet bean, Bengal bean, Benghal bean, Florida bean, Mucuna pruriens utilis. 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 cowage a common word?

cowage 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.