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Climbing vs Cowage - What's the difference?

climbing | cowage |

As nouns the difference between climbing and cowage

is that climbing is the sport of climbing, ascending a wall or a rock or another object using available holds, generally with the safety of a rope and belayer while cowage is a leguminous climbing plant, Mucuna pruriens, the spiculae of which are sometimes used as a mechanical vermifuge.

As a verb climbing

is present participle of lang=en.

As an adjective climbing

is that climbs; that grows upwards by gripping onto a surface.

climbing

English

Noun

(wikipedia climbing) (en-noun)
  • (uncountable) The sport of climbing, ascending a wall or a rock or another object using available holds, generally with the safety of a rope and belayer.
  • (countable) Climb; ascent.

    • See also

    * bouldering

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • (botany, of a plant) That climbs; that grows upwards by gripping onto a surface.

    • cowage

    English

    (wikipedia cowage) (Mucuna pruriens) (Mucuna pruriens)

    Alternative forms

    * couhage, cowhage, cowitch

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A leguminous climbing plant, Mucuna pruriens , the spiculae of which are sometimes used as a mechanical vermifuge.