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3 definitions found 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[=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}.] From WordNet r 1.6 [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: annual semi-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: {velvet bean}, {Bengal bean}, {Benghal bean}, {Florida bean}, {Mucuna pruriens utilis}, {Mucuna deeringiana}, {Mucuna aterrima}, {Stizolobium deeringiana}]
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