COWAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cowage mean? 

• COWAGE (noun)
  The noun COWAGE has 2 senses:

1. pods of the cowage plant or the stinging hairs covering them; used as a vermifuge when mixed with e.g. honey

2. 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

  Familiarity information: COWAGE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COWAGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pods of the cowage plant or the stinging hairs covering them; used as a vermifuge when mixed with e.g. honey

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("cowage" is a kind of...):

pod; seedpod (a several-seeded dehiscent fruit as e.g. of a leguminous plant)

Holonyms ("cowage" is a part of...):

Bengal bean; Benghal bean; cowage; Florida bean; Mucuna aterrima; Mucuna deeringiana; Mucuna pruriens utilis; Stizolobium deeringiana; velvet 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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Bengal bean; Benghal bean; cowage; Florida bean; Mucuna aterrima; Mucuna deeringiana; Mucuna pruriens utilis; Stizolobium deeringiana; velvet bean

Hypernyms ("cowage" is a kind of...):

mucuna (any of several erect or climbing woody plants of the genus Mucuna; widespread in tropics of both hemispheres)

Meronyms (parts of "cowage"):

cowage (pods of the cowage plant or the stinging hairs covering them; used as a vermifuge when mixed with e.g. honey)