cowpea plant

English Thesaurus

1. sprawling Old World annual cultivated especially in southern United States for food and forage and green manure (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	legume, leguminous plant,
definition	:	an erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae (noun.plant)

part holonym	:	black-eyed pea, cowpea,
definition	:	eaten fresh as shell beans or dried (noun.food)

part holonym	:	black-eyed pea, cowpea,
definition	:	fruit or seed of the cowpea plant (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	genus vigna, vigna,
definition	:	genus of vines or erect herbs having trifoliate leaves and yellowish or purplish flowers; of warm or tropical regions; most species often placed in genus Phaseolus (noun.plant)