pea plant
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- noun
- /piː plænt/
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planta de guisante
- I saw the tendrils of a sweet pea plant intertwined with the fern-like shoot of an asparagus plant.
- mutant pea plant
Whereas with a shelling pea, you're actually eating not the pod, but the seeds, the immature seeds of the pea plant.
- Whereas with a shelling pea, you're actually eating not the pod, but the seeds, the immature seeds of the pea plant.
Examples
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The leaves and tendrils of pea plants are sweet and add a springy crunch to salads.
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Something new has sprouted magically and mysteriously, and we are as amazed as when we were preschoolers who left the classroom in the afternoon and returned to school the next morning to find that a baby pea plant peeks out from the egg carton garden we and the teacher had planted the week before.
Academic text (2015) -
Why were those flimsy pea plants still standing?
Blog text (21) -
A pea plant emerged from the hole and crawled its way up the side of the tower.
Fiction book (1994) -
Also in the backyard, my blue pea plant is blooming profusely.
Blog text (13) -
The mutant pea plants thrive and produce seeds in Grusak's rooftop greenhouse because he limits the iron in their growth medium.
Academic text (1994) -
They can accumulate a thousand times more iron in their leaves than a normal pea plant, but they don't put any more iron in their seeds.
Academic text (1994) -
And then he did a bunch of experiments on pea plants, showing that peas that are wrinkled tend to have offspring, peas that are also wrinkled.
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PHOTO (COLOR): In his rooftop greenhouse, plant physiologist Michael Grusak checks root growth on iron-accumulating mutant pea plants.
Academic text (1994) -
Growing tip: Pea plants are floppy and need some support to thrive.
Synonyms
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A climbing plant with long green pods that have round seeds you can eat
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A flat green pod you eat whole when young
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A small pea plant grown for edible seeds that feed people or animals
A climbing plant grown for green peas usually eaten fresh
A garden plant that grows small round green vegetables often eaten fresh
A plant grown for its small green seeds that people eat fresh
A plant that grows peas you eat fresh
A pea plant with soft, flat pods that you can eat whole
A type of pea plant that makes soft pods you can eat whole
A pea plant grown for animal feed and to make soil better
A pea plant grown for animal feed, often used to feed cows and sheep
A plant grown in cool areas to feed animals and improve soil
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a plant that produces peas' is a direct, compositional combination of 'pea' (the crop/seed) and 'plant' (a living organism), so the overall sense is immediately derivable from the constituents. Noun–noun compounding of this type is a common and transparent pattern across many languages, making it easily inferable by a B1 learner who knows both words.
Etymology
Pea plant simply names the plant that grows peas: the word pea is the round seed and plant is the living green stem with leaves and pods, so picture a small green plant full of round peas, and that's why it means 'a plant that produces edible peas'.