- a tropical vine, Mucuna pruriens, of the legume family, bearing reddish or blackish pods.
- the pod itself, covered with bristlelike hairs that are irritating to the skin and cause intense itching.
- the hairs of the cowage mixed with a liquid vehicle and used to expel intestinal worms.
- a tropical climbing leguminous plant, Stizolobium (or Mucuna) pruriens, whose bristly pods cause severe itching and stinging
- the pods of this plant or the stinging hairs covering them
