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Noun: Vigna unguiculata
  1. Sprawling Old World annual cultivated especially in southern United States for food and forage and green manure
    - cowpea, cowpea plant, black-eyed pea [N. Amer], Vigna sinensis, black-eyed bean [Brit], black-eye bean [Brit]

Type of: legume, leguminous plant

Part of: genus Vigna, Vigna

Encyclopedia: Vigna unguiculata