Dictionary Definition
cowage
Noun
1 pods of the cowage plant or the stinging hairs
covering them; used as a vermifuge when mixed with e.g. honey
2 annual semi-woody vine of Asia having long
clusters of purplish flowers and densely hairy pods; cultivated in
southern United States for green manure and grazing [syn: velvet bean,
Bengal
bean, Benghal
bean, Florida
bean, Mucuna
pruriens utilis, Mucuna
deeringiana, Mucuna
aterrima, Stizolobium
deeringiana]