green pea
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- noun
- /ɡriːn piː/
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guisante verde
- Orange fritters, mashed potatoes, green peas.
- frozen green peas
- fresh green peas
- cooked green peas
Hold on, let's put some green peas in it, OK?
- Hold on, let's put some green peas in it, OK?
- It was about the size of a single green pea.
- Well, one was their pea colour, so it's yellow peas versus green peas.
- Potatoes, green peas, corn, Lima beans, sweet potatoes, winter squash, all full of starch all going to spike your blood sugar.
Examples
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Every time she broke things off, my mother would bake me a chicken with green peas and mashed potatoes.
Fiction book (1993) -
"She lifted her bucket of magnificent green peas and walked toward the house."
Fiction book (1993) -
Hold on, let's put some green peas in it, OK?
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"Ah, fresh green peas in the pod."
Fiction book (1993) -
Put a bowl of water in a pan and add green peas to it.
Blog text (16) -
Does the duck and green pea diet you feed come in a canned version?
Blog text (19) -
Come in for the lovely leg of lamb... and the gorgeous green peas, and the floury white potatoes.
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She knew how fat a pea pod should be before she pulled its string to let the round green peas roll into her mouth.
Fiction book (2002) -
Buttered green peas or beans could accompany it, and a good red Bordeaux wine.
Academic text (2004) -
I paid for my potatoes but was also drawn to the display of fresh green peas.
Synonyms
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A small round green seed that you eat as a vegetable
A small round green seed often eaten as a vegetable
How Mature
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a small round green seed eaten as a vegetable' is directly and transparently derived from the adjective 'green' (colour) modifying 'pea' (a small round seed). This is a simple adjective+noun composition following common cross-linguistic noun modification patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both words would readily understand the MWE.
Etymology
Green pea comes from the simple picture of a small, round pea that is green and picked while still young. So the name shows it is a tiny round seed eaten as a 'vegetable'.