cowage   (TTS Sound)

The noun cowage has 2 senses

• cowage -- (pods of the cowage plant or the stinging hairs covering them; used as a vermifuge when mixed with e.g. honey)


• cowage, velvet bean, Bengal bean, Benghal bean, Florida bean, Mucuna pruriens utilis, Mucuna deeringiana, Mucuna aterrima, Stizolobium deeringiana -- (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)