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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See cowhage.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) See cowhage.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A leguminous climbing plant, of the genus Mucuna, the spiculae of which are sometimes used as a mechanical vermifuge.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

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

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