cowage : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: cowage	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for cowage
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
cowage n pods of the cowage plant or the stinging hairs covering them; used as a vermifuge when mixed with e.g. honey 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 Synonym(s): cowage, velvet bean, Bengal bean, Benghal bean, Florida bean, Mucuna pruriens utilis, Mucuna deeringiana, Mucuna aterrima, Stizolobium deeringiana
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Cowage \Cow"age\ (kou"[asl]j), n. (Bot.) See {Cowhage}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Cowhage \Cow"hage\ (kou"h?j), n. [Cf. Hind. kaw[amc]nch, ko[amac]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[91] are sometimes used in medicine as a mechanical vermifuge. [Written also {couhage}, {cowage}, and {cowitch}.]