garden pea
- noun
- /ˈɡɑrdən pi/
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- Fresh garden peas are a popular ingredient in many springtime dishes and salads.
Examples
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She harvested a basket full of sweet garden peas from her home garden for dinner.
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So we start with fresh garden peas, although most of the time we actually start with Jolly Green Giant.
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To prepare a healthy snack, I added fresh garden peas to my mixed vegetable plate.
Synonyms
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A climbing plant with long green pods that have round seeds you can eat
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A small garden plant with white flowers and long green pods containing edible green seeds
A plant that grows peas you eat fresh
A garden plant that grows small round green vegetables often eaten fresh
A climbing plant grown for green peas usually eaten fresh
How Cultivated
Surface Forms
Morphology
This is a straightforward noun-noun compound where 'garden' specifies the source/type of the 'pea', so the meaning ('a pea grown in or associated with a garden' / the edible small green seed) is directly derivable from the constituents. The compositional pattern is common cross-linguistically and follows regular English modifier + head morphology, making it immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows both words.
Etymology
Garden pea: The noun garden pea comes from peas grown in ordinary gardens to be eaten 'fresh', not 'dried' in fields. So it refers to the plant you grow and pick young for sweet pods.