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🌱 A pea plant 🟢 A green vegetable
garden pea

garden pea

1.0
A small round green seed often eaten as a vegetable
  • noun
  • /ˈɡɑrdən pi/
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  • She added garden peas to the salad for extra flavor and color.

Examples

  • The children love to pick and eat garden peas straight from the pod.

  • "New garden peas," Jada said.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • A box full of old garden peas when everybody else was eating fried chicken and potato salad?

    Fiction book (1993)

  • We harvested a basket of fresh garden peas from the vegetable patch today.

Synonyms

pea
vsgarden pea
89 1.0

A small round green seed that you eat as a vegetable

is a specific garden form that also can mean its edible pod
snap pea
vsgarden pea
3 3.3

A pea with crisp pods you eat whole

often refers to the round seed or sometimes to pods eaten
snow pea
vsgarden pea
2 2.3

A flat green pod you eat whole when young

typically denotes the round seed rather than flat pods
green pea
vsgarden pea
1 1.0

A small round green seed you eat as a vegetable

is the same but also includes the plant's edible pod
sugar snap pea
vsgarden pea
1 2.5

A sweet pea with a crisp round pod that you can eat whole, raw or cooked

focuses more on the single round seed rather than sweet whole pods
common pea
vsgarden pea
1.0

A garden plant that grows small round green vegetables often eaten fresh

focuses more on the edible seed or sometimes the pod
edible-pod pea
vsgarden pea
4.4

A type of pea plant that makes soft pods you can eat whole

puts more attention on the seed as the primary edible part
edible-podded pea
vsgarden pea
4.4

A pea plant with thick soft pods that you can eat

usually refers to the seed rather than pods eaten whole
sugar pea
vsgarden pea
  • US
2.6

A small green vegetable with flat pods you eat whole while young

usually denotes the round seed rather than flat pods

How Common

garden pea
1.0

Surface Forms

garden pea singular
garden peas plural

Morphology

garden + pea

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 points to the small, round green pea you pick and eat. The picture of a tiny green ball on a stem helps you remember that it means the edible 'seed' or the 'pod'.