Black-eyed pea Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun fruit or seed of the cowpea plant
    cowpea.
  2. noun sprawling Old World annual cultivated especially in southern United States for food and forage and green manure
    Vigna sinensis; cowpea plant; Vigna unguiculata; cowpea.
  3. noun eaten fresh as shell beans or dried
    cowpea.

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Definitions
  1. a West Indian name for Dolichos sphærospermus and its seed.

Webster 1913