Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun cowage

2 senses of cowage

Sense 1
cowage -- (pods of the cowage plant or the stinging hairs covering them; used as a vermifuge when mixed with e.g. honey)
       => pod, seedpod -- (a several-seeded dehiscent fruit as e.g. of a leguminous plant)

Sense 2
cowage, velvet bean, Bengal bean, Benghal bean, Florida bean, Mucuna pruriens utilis, Mucuna deeringiana, Mucuna aterrima, Stizolobium deeringiana -- (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)
       => mucuna -- (any of several erect or climbing woody plants of the genus Mucuna; widespread in tropics of both hemispheres)