noun
- Fruit or seed of the cowpea plant.
- synonyms: black-eyed pea
- Sprawling Old World annual cultivated especially in southern United States for food and forage and green manure.
- synonyms: cowpea plant, black-eyed pea, Vigna unguiculata, Vigna sinensis
- Eaten fresh as shell beans or dried.
- synonyms: black-eyed pea
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