cowpea plant

Questions about cowpea plant

What does cowpea plant mean?

cowpea plant means "sprawling Old World annual cultivated especially in southern United States for food and forage and green manure".

What is another word for cowpea plant?

Close synonyms include cowpea, black-eyed pea, 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 cowpea plant a common word?

cowpea plant is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.