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

3 senses of cowpea

Sense 1
cowpea, black-eyed pea -- (fruit or seed of the cowpea plant)
       => 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)

Sense 2
cowpea, cowpea plant, black-eyed pea, Vigna unguiculata, Vigna sinensis -- (sprawling Old World annual cultivated especially in southern United States for food and forage and green manure)
       => legume, leguminous plant -- (an erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae)

Sense 3
black-eyed pea, cowpea -- (eaten fresh as shell beans or dried)
       => legume -- (the seedpod of a leguminous plant (such as peas or beans or lentils))