How to Use cowpea in a Sentence

cowpea

noun

• Longer term, the researchers are hoping to raise yields in staple foods like rice, cowpea and cassava.
  — New York Times, 18 Aug. 2022
• Asia was home to adzuki, soybeans, winged beans, mung and urad dal, and Africa produced cowpeas, yard-long beans, pigeon peas, Dolichos lablab beans and black-eyed peas.
  — Margaret Lauterbach, idahostatesman, 14 Mar. 2018
• The best plants in this category are forage soybeans, cowpeas, and lablab.
  — Gerald Almy, Field & Stream, 28 May 2020
• Field peas or cowpeas—which include black-eyed peas, crowder peas, and cream peas—are, botanically, beans.
  — The Editors Of Organic Life, Good Housekeeping, 31 Mar. 2017
• Beans in the cowpea group, such as the familiar black-eyed pea, also have this characteristic.
  — oregonlive, 9 June 2021
• Others never caught on, like the Ron bean from the Yucatán, with its thick ochre skin and bland flesh, or the Veronico, from the town of Tecozautla, which looked like a pine nut but tasted like a cowpea.
  — Junot Díaz, The New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2018
• Jessica Sakwa and her husband, Ken, run a peanut and cowpea farm in eastern Uganda.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 6 June 2013
• The slave trade introduced the cowpea to the Americas, but rice-and-bean dishes already were being made and eaten in areas where rice grew wild.
  — Amethyst Ganaway, Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2022
• Gottlieb, who’d started out as an agricultural chemist by writing a thesis on cowpeas, joined the agency in 1951.
  — Christopher Tayler, Harper's magazine, 19 Aug. 2019
• Dasher began focusing the family farm on bahiagrass, rye and cowpeas in the 1970s.
  — Jenny Staletovich, sun-sentinel.com, 14 Aug. 2019
• Black-eyed peas: These small earthy-flavored beans, also known as crowder peas and cowpeas, are particularly cherished in Southern cooking.
  — Melissa Clark, NYT Cooking, 13 Mar. 2018
• Weevil infestations caused postharvest losses as high as 50 percent until Purdue University researchers discovered that storing the cowpeas in airtight containers could preserve the crop for up to a year.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 6 June 2013

Last Updated: 6 Oct 2024