English
Detailed Synonyms for cowage in English
cowage:
cowage [the ~] noun
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the cowage
– 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 1the velvet bean; the Stizolobium deeringiana; the Mucuna deeringiana; the Florida bean; the Bengal bean; the cowage; the Mucuna pruriens utilis; the Mucuna aterrima; the Benghal bean– 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 1 -
the cowage
– pods of the cowage plant or the stinging hairs covering them; used as a vermifuge when mixed with e.g. honey 1