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cowage
(encz) | cowage, n: |
Cowage
(gcide) | Cowage \Cow"age\ (kou"[asl]j), n. (Bot.)
See Cowhage.
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cowage
(gcide) | Cowhage \Cow"hage\ (kou"h[asl]j), n. [Cf. Hind. kaw[=a]nch,
ko[=a]nch.] (Bot.)
A leguminous climbing plant of the genus Mucuna, having
crooked pods covered with sharp hairs, which stick to the
fingers, causing intolerable itching. The spicul[ae] are
sometimes used in medicine as a mechanical vermifuge.
[Written also couhage, cowage, and cowitch.]
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cowage
(wn) | cowage
n 1: pods of the cowage plant or the stinging hairs covering
them; used as a vermifuge when mixed with e.g. honey
2: 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 [syn:
cowage, velvet bean, Bengal bean, Benghal bean,
Florida bean, Mucuna pruriens utilis, {Mucuna
deeringiana}, Mucuna aterrima, Stizolobium deeringiana] |
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Cowage
(gcide) | Cowage \Cow"age\ (kou"[asl]j), n. (Bot.)
See Cowhage.
[1913 Webster]Cowhage \Cow"hage\ (kou"h[asl]j), n. [Cf. Hind. kaw[=a]nch,
ko[=a]nch.] (Bot.)
A leguminous climbing plant of the genus Mucuna, having
crooked pods covered with sharp hairs, which stick to the
fingers, causing intolerable itching. The spicul[ae] are
sometimes used in medicine as a mechanical vermifuge.
[Written also couhage, cowage, and cowitch.]
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