pea
- noun
- /piː/
- The bag of frozen peas in the cooler.
- peas and beans
- corn and peas
- black-eyed peas
You know there've been tins of peas processed.
- You know there've been tins of peas processed.
- It takes it from like blended peas to blended peas with a little kick.
- So legumes includes beans, peas and lentils.
- Like, would you like peas or beans with your meal today?
- Someone could use a rice pea blend of protein for that first meal.
- Next we have one of my favorite types of peas, Desiree Dwarf Blau Shocker.
- Yeah, they taste like they taste like peas, but like, like bean peas kind of.
- I was eating some some peas and there was a white rock in them.
- Just spotted it for beans and peas, possibly Peppers.
- Green peas, plankton peas for my dessert.
- You know, it's you know, it's peas, man, peas.
Examples
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I'll open a tin of peas.
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White meat, peas cooked, no salt.
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A bag of frozen peas would be best.
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What have we got, peas and carrots?
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Daniel threw in a few peas until the bottom of the bucket was covered.
Fiction book (1993) -
Now we are having chicken with carrots, peas, potatoes and rice soup.
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We got roast chicken, peas and carrots and mashed potatoes.
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Buttered green peas or beans could accompany it, and a good red Bordeaux wine.
Academic text (2004) -
Almost all of the nation's soft white wheat grows here, along with barley, peas, and lentils.
Academic text (1995) -
I love adding peas to my salad for extra crunch and flavor.
Synonyms
A pea with crisp pods you eat whole
A flat green pod you eat whole when young
A small round green seed you eat as a vegetable
A sweet pea with a crisp round pod that you can eat whole, raw or cooked
An old word used in the past or in some regions for small green seeds eaten as food
A small pea plant grown for edible seeds that feed people or animals
A small round green seed often eaten as a vegetable
A garden plant that grows small round green vegetables often eaten fresh
A small seed eaten as food in warm countries
A climbing plant like the garden pea that grows in the wild
A pea plant with thick soft pods that you can eat
A type of pea plant that makes soft pods you can eat whole
A small green vegetable with flat pods you eat whole while young
Compounds
A small garden plant with white flowers and long green pods containing edible green seeds
- UK
A wild plant with purple flowers that grows on sandy coasts and helps hold the sand
A climbing garden plant with broad leaves and purple, pink, or white flowers that lives for many years
- Specialized
A plant with leaves in three parts and clusters of yellow or purple flowers
A climbing plant with bright blue or purple flowers that people use to make tea and decorate gardens
- 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
- UK
A European perennial plant with purple and pink flowers grown for animal feed and to improve soil
- Australian
A low evergreen shrub with heart-shaped leaves, bright yellow pea-like flowers, and flat seed pods
A European plant with purple and pink flowers that farmers grow for animal food or to improve soil
- Australian
An Australian shrub that keeps its leaves all year and has shiny green leaves and bright purple flowers
- Specialized
A winter plant with weak stems that farmers use to cover soil and feed animals
- Specialized
A small American plant with yellow flowers and leaflets that fold when touched, often in prairies and open woods
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Etymology
Pea for the small, round seed comes from the old English pease and the Latin pisum. A helpful way to remember this is that people treated pease as 'more than one' and so created the singular pea, which is why we call the seed a pea today.