cowage

[Cami]

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

[Carollacob]

pods of the cowage plant or the stinging hairs covering them; used as a vermifuge when mixed with e.g. honey

[Oralee]

A leguminous climbing plant, of the genus Mucuna, the spiculae of which are sometimes used as a mechanical vermifuge.

[Tjalfdyed 0]

Bremilham, also known as Cowage or Cowich, is a small settlement and former civil parish in Wiltshire, England. It is near the hamlet of Foxley in the parish of Norton. The nearest town is Malmesbury, about 2 miles (3.2 km) away to the north east.The place-name Bremilham is first attested in 1065, as Bremelham, and means village where brambles or blackberries grew. In 1831, the population of the parish was 33. On some present-day maps, only Cowage Farm is shown.Bremilham was a small ecclesiastical parish until 1893 when it was united with Foxley. In 1934 Foxley (with Bremilham) was transferred to the civil parish of Norton.

[Emorynaseaps]

Cowage is a tropical, climbing plant known as Mucuna pruriens, native to South Asia and Central America. Its pods and seeds have medicinal properties and are used in traditional medicine. It is also known as velvet bean or cowitch. The term cowage can also refer to the hairs on the pods of this plant, which are sometimes used as an anthelmintic to expel parasitic worms.