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black-eyed pea

DEFINITIONS OF: black-eyed pea

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n sprawling Old World annual cultivated especially in southern United States for food and forage and green manure

Synonyms:
Vigna sinensis, Vigna unguiculata, cowpea, cowpea plant
Type of:
legume, leguminous plant
an erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae

n fruit or seed of the cowpea plant

Synonyms:
cowpea
Type of:
legume
the fruit or seed of any of various bean or pea plants consisting of a case that splits along both sides when ripe and having the seeds attach to one side of the case

n eaten fresh as shell beans or dried

Synonyms:
cowpea
Type of:
legume
the seedpod of a leguminous plant (such as peas or beans or lentils)
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