Noun: cowage kaw-ij
- 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
"Farmers planted cowage as a cover crop to improve soil fertility";
- velvet bean, Bengal bean, Benghal bean, Florida bean, Mucuna pruriens utilis, Mucuna deeringiana, Mucuna aterrima, Stizolobium deeringiana
- Pods of the cowage plant or the stinging hairs covering them; used as a vermifuge when mixed with e.g. honey
"In traditional medicine, cowage was carefully mixed with honey to create a deworming treatment"
Derived forms: cowages
Encyclopedia: Cowage