cowage Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun pods of the cowage plant or the stinging hairs covering them; used as a vermifuge when mixed with e.g. honey
  2. noun 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; Mucuna pruriens utilis; Florida bean; Stizolobium deeringiana; velvet bean; Mucuna deeringiana; Mucuna aterrima.

WordNet


Cow"age noun
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) See Cowhage.

Webster 1913