BLACK-EYED PEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does black-eyed pea mean? 

• BLACK-EYED PEA (noun)
  The noun BLACK-EYED PEA has 3 senses:

1. fruit or seed of the cowpea plant

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

3. eaten fresh as shell beans or dried

  Familiarity information: BLACK-EYED PEA used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLACK-EYED PEA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fruit or seed of the cowpea plant

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

black-eyed pea; cowpea

Hypernyms ("black-eyed pea" is a kind 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)

Holonyms ("black-eyed pea" is a part of...):

black-eyed pea; cowpea; cowpea plant; Vigna sinensis; Vigna unguiculata (sprawling Old World annual cultivated especially in southern United States for food and forage and green manure)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

black-eyed pea; cowpea; cowpea plant; Vigna sinensis; Vigna unguiculata

Hypernyms ("black-eyed pea" is a kind of...):

legume; leguminous plant (an erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae)

Meronyms (parts of "black-eyed pea"):

black-eyed pea; cowpea (eaten fresh as shell beans or dried)

black-eyed pea; cowpea (fruit or seed of the cowpea plant)

Holonyms ("black-eyed pea" is a member of...):

genus Vigna; Vigna (genus of vines or erect herbs having trifoliate leaves and yellowish or purplish flowers; of warm or tropical regions; most species often placed in genus Phaseolus)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Eaten fresh as shell beans or dried

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

black-eyed pea; cowpea

Hypernyms ("black-eyed pea" is a kind of...):

legume (the seedpod of a leguminous plant (such as peas or beans or lentils))

Holonyms ("black-eyed pea" is a part of...):

black-eyed pea; cowpea; cowpea plant; Vigna sinensis; Vigna unguiculata (sprawling Old World annual cultivated especially in southern United States for food and forage and green manure)