NOUN
- pods of the cowage plant or the stinging hairs covering them; used as a vermifuge when mixed with e.g. honey
- the annual woody vine of Asia having long clusters of purplish flowers and densely hairy pods; cultivated in southern United States for green manure and grazing
How To Use cowage In A Sentence
- Others carried bags filled with hairs of picapica; * (* Dolichos pruriens (cowage).) and blew the hair, which causes a great irritation of the skin, into the faces of those who passed by. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2
- Nettle of extra-stinging quality; but it may also mean an Eastern plant that was used to produce cowage, or cow-itch. The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare
- It is called the cowage, or cow-itch, on account of the seed pods being covered with short brittle hairs, the points of which are finely serrated, causing an unbearable itching when applied to the skin, which is relieved by rubbing the part with oil. Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture
