What is the meaning of cowage?

noun

• Pods of the cowage plant or the stinging hairs covering them; used as a vermifuge when mixed with e. G. Honey.
• The annual woody vine of Asia having long clusters of purplish flowers and densely hairy pods; cultivated in southern United States for green manure and grazing.
  • synonyms: velvet bean, Bengal bean, Benghal bean, Florida bean, Mucuna pruriens utilis, Mucuna deeringiana, Mucuna aterrima, Stizolobium deeringiana