sweetpea

2 3.9

A climbing garden plant with small sweet smelling pastel flowers

noun
/ˈswitˌpi/

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Foster mom to one: Sweetpea - 11 months old (with us since birth).

Examples

Sweetpea paella and barbecue chicken.

Fiction book (2002)
She planted sweetpea seeds in her garden to enjoy their fragrant flowers in the spring.
The sweetpea vine climbed up the trellis, covering it in beautiful pastel blooms.
Every summer, we look forward to the sweetpea flowers brightening up our backyard.

Synonyms

sweet pea

vssweetpea

1 3.0

A climbing garden plant with small fragrant flowers in pale colors

is the single-word written form usually used for the plant

Lathyrus odoratus

vssweetpea

Specialized

8.3

A climbing garden plant with a sweet smell and pale colorful flowers called sweet pea

is the common garden name usually used for the plant

How Fragrant

jasmine

51 2.7

Gardenia

Specialized

2 5.2

sweetpea

2 3.9

rose

469 1.0

peony

3 3.7

Surface Forms

sweetpea singular

sweetpeas plural

Morphology

sweetpea = sweet + pea (transparent) = sweet + pea

Formed by the clear combination of 'sweet' + 'pea'; learners can infer it denotes a pea-like plant with a sweet scent.

Etymology

Sweetpea comes from the simple English parts sweet and pea because gardeners called it that when they noticed the flowers smell 'sweet' and the plant is a type of 'pea'. So the name helps you remember it is a fragrant, climbing pea-family flower.