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legume vs cowpea

cowpea vs legume

legume and cowpea both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
legume Yes No No No
cowpea Yes No No No
As nouns, cowpea is a hyponym of legume; that is, cowpea is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than legume:
  • legume: the seedpod of a leguminous plant (such as peas or beans or lentils)
  • cowpea: eaten fresh as shell beans or dried
Other hyponyms of legume include pulse, bean, edible bean, lentil, pea, chickpea, garbanzo, black-eyed pea.
As nouns, cowpea is a hyponym of legume; that is, cowpea is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than legume:
  • legume: an erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae
  • cowpea: sprawling Old World annual cultivated especially in southern United States for food and forage and green manure
As nouns, cowpea is a hyponym of legume; that is, cowpea is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than legume:
  • legume: the fruit or seed of any of various bean or pea plants consisting of a case that splits along both sides when ripe and having the seeds attach to one side of the case
  • cowpea: fruit or seed of the cowpea plant
Other hyponyms of legume include chickpea, garbanzo, lentil, pea, field pea, black-eyed pea.
legume (noun) cowpea (noun)
the seedpod of a leguminous plant (such as peas or beans or lentils) eaten fresh as shell beans or dried
an erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae sprawling Old World annual cultivated especially in southern United States for food and forage and green manure
the fruit or seed of any of various bean or pea plants consisting of a case that splits along both sides when ripe and having the seeds attach to one side of the case fruit or seed of the cowpea plant
Difference between legume and cowpea

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