cowage

cowage

(ˈkaʊɪdʒ) or

cowhage

n

1. (Plants) a tropical climbing leguminous plant, Stizolobium (or Mucuna) pruriens, whose bristly pods cause severe itching and stinging

2. (Plants) the pods of this plant or the stinging hairs covering them

[C17: from Hindi kavāch, of obscure origin]

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Thesaurus

Noun	1.	cowage - pods of the cowage plant or the stinging hairs covering them; used as a vermifuge when mixed with e.g. honey Florida bean, Mucuna aterrima, Mucuna deeringiana, Mucuna pruriens utilis, Stizolobium deeringiana, velvet bean, Bengal bean, Benghal bean, cowage - 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 seedpod, pod - a several-seeded dehiscent fruit as e.g. of a leguminous plant
	2.	cowage - 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 Bengal bean, Benghal bean, Florida bean, Mucuna aterrima, Mucuna deeringiana, Mucuna pruriens utilis, Stizolobium deeringiana, velvet bean mucuna - any of several erect or climbing woody plants of the genus Mucuna; widespread in tropics of both hemispheres cowage - pods of the cowage plant or the stinging hairs covering them; used as a vermifuge when mixed with e.g. honey

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