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pea flour

pea flour

3.6
Powder made from dried peas used for cooking and baking
  • noun
  • /piː flɔːr/
translation icon : harina de guisante
  • The baker experimented with pea flour to create gluten-free bread.

Examples

  • In the recipe, you can substitute wheat flour with pea flour for a healthier option.

  • Use of cereal and grass-pea flour mixtures for these preparations reduced the risk of paralysis if they contained more than a third of cereal.

    Academic text (2003)

  • She made delicious pancakes using pea flour instead of regular flour.

Surface Forms

pea flour singular
pea flours plural

Morphology

pea + flour

The meaning 'a type of flour made from peas' is directly and compositionally derived from 'pea' (the legume) + 'flour' (a fine powder produced by grinding), so knowing the constituents gives the MWE meaning. Noun–noun compounds that name a product by its source (X + flour) are common cross-linguistically and follow a transparent, predictable pattern for B1 learners.

Etymology

Pea flour comes from the simple idea of turning dried peas into flour by grinding them into a fine powder. That's why the name means 'a type of flour made by grinding dried peas', used in cooking and baking.