cowage
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cowage
(ˈkaʊɪdʒ) orcowhage
n
1. (Plants) a tropical climbing leguminous plant, Stizolobium (or Mucuna) pruriens, whose bristly pods cause severe itching and stinging
2. (Plants) the pods of this plant or the stinging hairs covering them
[C17: from Hindi kavāch, of obscure origin]
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| Noun | 1. | cowage - pods of the cowage plant or the stinging hairs covering them; used as a vermifuge when mixed with e.g. honey Florida bean, Mucuna aterrima, Mucuna deeringiana, Mucuna pruriens utilis, Stizolobium deeringiana, velvet bean, Bengal bean, Benghal bean, 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 |
| 2. |  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 grazingBengal bean, Benghal bean, Florida bean, Mucuna aterrima, Mucuna deeringiana, Mucuna pruriens utilis, Stizolobium deeringiana, velvet bean mucuna - any of several erect or climbing woody plants of the genus Mucuna; widespread in tropics of both hemispheres cowage - pods of the cowage plant or the stinging hairs covering them; used as a vermifuge when mixed with e.g. honey |
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