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garden pea plant

garden pea plant

2.0
A plant that grows peas you eat fresh
  • noun
translation icon : planta de guisante
  • My grandmother grew a row of garden pea plants in her backyard every spring.

Examples

  • The garden pea plant thrives best in cool, well-drained soil.

  • Children love picking fresh pods from the garden pea plant during the summer.

  • The garden pea plant thrives in cool weather.

  • I love to grow garden pea plants in my backyard.

  • During the summer, children enjoy harvesting peas from the garden pea plant in the backyard.

  • Every spring, my grandmother nurtured a patch of garden pea plants to enjoy fresh peas.

  • For the best flavor, the garden pea plant should be grown in rich, moist soil.

Synonyms

pea plant
vsgarden pea plant
1 1.0

A small garden plant with white flowers and long green pods containing edible green seeds

is focused on food use, not on botanical details like flowers or pods
garden pea
vsgarden pea plant
2.0

A plant grown for its small green seeds that people eat fresh

is the general plant producing small green seeds eaten fresh rather than dried
common pea
vsgarden pea plant
1.0

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

is the defined term used here rather than an alternative name
Pisum sativum
vsgarden pea plant
  • Specialized
8.4

A climbing plant grown for green peas usually eaten fresh

is the common, general description rather than botanical classification

How Cultivated

cash crop
6 3.2
garden pea plant
2.0
wildling
8.2

Surface Forms

garden pea plant singular
garden pea plants plural

Morphology

garden + pea + plant

The meaning is directly and transparently compositional: 'garden' + 'pea' + 'plant' describes a plant (head noun) that produces peas and is associated with a garden. This noun-noun compounding pattern is productive and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will readily infer the intended meaning.

Etymology

Garden pea plant comes from small pea plants grown in a garden for picking sweet peas to eat fresh. That's why it means 'a plant that produces peas typically eaten fresh'.