pea
- noun
- /piː/
- So this is how Fraser likes to eat his salmon, all mixed up with rice, peas and baked beans.
- a pea plant
- grow peas
- pea crop
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Examples
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So first of all, how much pea seed do you actually need?
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We had creamed chicken on toast, peas, ice cream, and cake.
Fiction book (1990) -
And I am not letting one little pea pod go to waste.
Fiction book (1993) -
Princess was so sensitive that even a pea would be painful.
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Split pea with rice and broccoli.
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I was out here harvesting some pea seeds to save for next year.
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black-eyed peas and collard greens.
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We plant four seasonal gardens: peas, beans, corn, okra, tomatoes, and potatoes.
Academic text (2008) -
I love eating a salad that includes fresh peas from the garden.
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For dinner, she made a delicious dish with peas, carrots, and rice.
Synonyms
A small garden plant with white flowers and long green pods containing edible green seeds
A plant grown for its small green seeds that people eat fresh
A climbing plant grown for green peas usually eaten fresh
A garden plant that grows small round green vegetables often eaten fresh
A plant that grows peas you eat fresh
Compounds
A small garden plant with white flowers and long green pods containing edible green seeds
A climbing plant with bright blue or purple flowers that people use to make tea and decorate gardens
- UK
A European perennial plant with purple and pink flowers grown for animal feed and to improve soil
- UK
A wild plant with purple flowers that grows on sandy coasts and helps hold the sand
A wild pea plant that grows on sandy seashores, with purple flowers and strong roots that hold sand
- Specialized
A plant with leaves in three parts and clusters of yellow or purple flowers
- Specialized
A small American plant with yellow flowers and leaflets that fold when touched, often in prairies and open woods
- Specialized
A climbing plant that grows back every year with purple, pink, or white flowers
- Australian
An Australian shrub that keeps its leaves all year and has shiny green leaves and bright purple flowers
- Australian
An Australian evergreen shrub with bright yellow to red flowers that is poisonous to farm animals
A low bush with soft leaves and small yellow-pink flowers that grows in eastern North America
A climbing garden plant with broad leaves and purple, pink, or white flowers that lives for many years
- Indian
A tropical plant with hard stems and yellow flowers that has flat pods of edible seeds
A shrub from northern China with dark green shiny leaves and pale yellow flowers grown in gardens
A spiny bush with bright rose and purple flowers that forms dense thickets on dry, rocky California slopes
- Australian
A low spreading evergreen bush from southern Australia with orange-yellow flowers and flat winged pods
- Australian
A low bushy plant from dry parts of Australia with bright red flowers and a black spot
A plant from Europe with small edible tubers that people eat and use to add flavor
- UK
A European plant with small edible roots eaten as food and used to flavour whisky
- South African
A South African evergreen vine with purple flowers and edible young pods that farmers often grow to improve soil
- Australian
A low evergreen shrub with heart-shaped leaves, bright yellow pea-like flowers, and flat seed pods
Surface Forms
Etymology
Pea for the climbing plant comes from the old English word pease and the Latin pisum. People heard pease as 'more than one' and later made the single form pea, so the plant took the same name as its small round seed.