garden pea
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- noun
- /ˈɡɑrdən pi/
- She added garden peas to the salad for extra flavor and color.
Examples
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The children love to pick and eat garden peas straight from the pod.
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"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
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A small round green seed that you eat as a vegetable
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A pea with crisp pods you eat whole
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A small round green seed you eat as a vegetable
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A flat green pod you eat whole when young
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A sweet pea with a crisp round pod that you can eat whole, raw or cooked
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A garden plant that grows small round green vegetables often eaten fresh
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A type of pea plant that makes soft pods you can eat whole
A pea plant with thick soft pods that you can eat
A small green vegetable with flat pods you eat whole while young
How Common
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 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'.