cowpea; black-eyed pea; southern pea
Refers to the legume Vigna unguiculata, commonly known as cowpea or black-eyed pea. Often used in cooking; the young pods and seeds are edible.
See also: ささげ
Cowpeas are beans often eaten in summer.
Around here, we use cowpeas in simmered dishes.
Kanji form; very rare and likely to be unfamiliar to most readers.
A regional variant of ささげ, the native Japanese name for the cowpea; spellings such as 豇豆 use the established Chinese plant characters.