cowpea
Americannoun
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a plant, Vigna unguiculata, extensively cultivated in the southern U.S. for forage, soil improvement, etc.
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the seed of this plant, used for food.
noun
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a leguminous tropical climbing plant, Vigna sinensis, producing long pods containing edible pealike seeds: grown for animal fodder and sometimes as human food
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Also called: black-eyed pea. the seed of this plant
Etymology
Origin of cowpea
Example Sentences
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Mice injected with cowpea mosaic virus nanoparticles -- and then challenged with metastatic tumors a week later -- exhibited improved survival rates and reduced tumor growth compared to untreated mice.
From Science Daily ● May 13, 2024
Cultures throughout human history have had their own favored intercropping systems with similar synergies, such as tumeric and mango or millet, cowpea and ziziphus, commonly known as red date.
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2023
Anna Koltunow of the University of Queensland is developing apomictic varieties of sorghum and cowpea, important crops for farmers in sub-Saharan Africa.
From Science Magazine ● May 17, 2023
David Riley, a professor of entomology at the University of Georgia, works with vegetable pests like cowpea curculio, which has decimated the state’s black-eye pea fields.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2019
“You mix the cowpea flour and palm oil, then you steam-cook for hours. You think you can ever get just the cowpea flour? Or just the palm oil?”
From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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