Hyphenation of cowpea

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word cowpea? This word can be hyphenated and contains 2 syllables as shown below.

cow-pea

Definitions of cowpea:

1.	Fruit or seed of the cowpea plant
2.	Sprawling Old World annual cultivated especially in southern United States for food and forage and green manure
3.	Eaten fresh as shell beans or dried

Synonyms of cowpea:

noun	black-eyed pea, legume
noun	cowpea plant, black-eyed pea, Vigna unguiculata, Vigna sinensis, legume, leguminous plant
noun	black-eyed pea, legume

Last hyphenations of this language

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