vigna unguiculata

Questions about vigna unguiculata

What does vigna unguiculata mean?

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

What is another word for vigna unguiculata?

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

vigna unguiculata 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.