black-eyed pea

English

black-eyed pea beans

Noun

black-eyed pea (plural black-eyed peas)

1. An African leguminous plant, of the species Vigna unguiculata, widely cultivated as food and forage, specifically Vigna unguiculata subsp. unguiculata.

   Hypernym: cowpea

2. The edible seed of these plants.
3. (Southern US) Any pale bean with a black spot.

Synonyms

• (Vigna unguiculata subsp. unguiculata): blackeye pea, black-eye pea (US, South); bachapin bean, black-eyed bean, black eyed cowpea, black eyed dolichos, common cowpea, cultivated African cowpea, cowgram, acre pea, cow pea, crowder bean, southern pea, crowder pea, marble pea, poona pea, kafir bean
• (any pale bean with a black spot): blackeye pea, black-eye pea

Translations

cowpea plant Vigna unguiculata or Vigna unguiculata subsp. unguiculata

• Arabic: لُوبِيَاء f (lūbiyāʔ), لُوبِيَا f (lūbiyā), دِجْر m (dijr)
• Bulgarian: аспержов боб m (asperžov bob)
• German: Kuhbohne f, Augenbohne f, Schwarzaugenbohne f, Schlangenbohne f
• Greek:

  Ancient: φάσηλος m (phásēlos), σμῖλαξ f (smîlax)

• Hungarian: tehénborsó
• Persian: لوبیا (fa) (lôbiyâ)
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• Polish: wspięga wężowata f, fasolnik chiński m, fasolnik wężowy m
• Russian: коро́вий горо́х m (koróvij goróx)
• Serbo-Croatian: mlȅtačkī grȁh m, pasuljica (sh) f
• Swahili: mkunde
• Swedish: ögonböna (sv)
• Tagalog: payap, paayap
• Turkish: börülce (tr)

cowpea bean, the produce of the aforementioned plant

• Arabic: لُوبِيَاء f (lūbiyāʔ), لُوبِيَا f (lūbiyā), دِجْر m (dijr)

  Egyptian Arabic: لوبية f (lubya)

  Moroccan Arabic: لوبية (lūbya)

• Catalan: fesolet m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 豇豆 (jiāngdòu)

  Min-Nan: 菜豆 (chhài-tāu)

  Cantonese: 眉豆 (mei⁴ dau^6-2)

• Finnish: pitkäpapu (fi), lehmänpapu
• French: cornille (fr) f, dolique à œil noir (fr), pois à vache (fr), niébé (fr)
• German: Kuhbohne f, Augenbohne f, Schwarzaugenbohne f, Schlangenbohne f
• Greek: μαυρομάτικα φασόλια pl (mavromátika fasólia)

  Ancient: φάσηλος m (phásēlos), σμῖλαξ f (smîlax)

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• Hungarian: tehénborsó
• Khmer: សណ្ដែកអង្គុយ (sɑndaek ɑngkuy)
• Persian: لوبیا (fa) (lôbiyâ)
• Portuguese: feijão-frade (pt) m, feijão-carito m, chícharo (pt) m
• Russian: коро́вий горо́х m (koróvij goróx)
• Serbo-Croatian: mletački grah m, pasuljica (sh) f
• Swahili: ukunde
• Swedish: ögonböna (sv) c
• Tagalog: payap, paayap
• Thai: ถั่วฝักยาว (th) (tùua-fàk-yaao)
• Turkish: börülce (tr)
• Wolof: ñebbe

any pale bean with a black spot

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• Spanish: caupí m, anconí m (Dominican Republic), chícharo de vaca m (Mexico), frijol m (Venezuela), frijol alacín m (Honduras, Nicaragua), frijol carita m (Cuba), frijol Castilla m (Peru), fríjol caupí m (Colombia), frijol de vara m (Nicaragua), frijol ojo negro m (Panama), frijol pelón m (Mexico), frijol yorimón m (Mexico), poroto caupí m (Argentina)
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• Vietnamese: đậu trắng

Further reading

• black-eyed pea on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Cowpea on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Vigna unguiculata on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Vigna on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Vigna unguiculata subsp. unguiculata on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• “black-eyed pea”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• Vigna unguiculata ssp. dekindtiana at USDA Plants database
• Vigna unguiculata subsp. unguiculata at Tropicos