blue pea
- noun
- Indian
:
guisante azul
- Growing a blue pea vine can enhance the beauty of any garden with its striking flowers.
Examples
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The gardener was thrilled to see the blue pea flowers opening in the sunlight.
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She added fresh leaves from the blue pea plant to her salad for a pop of color.
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Also in the backyard, my blue pea plant is blooming profusely.
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Synonyms
A tropical vine with bright blue flowers often used to make tea
A climbing plant with bright blue or purple flowers that people use to make tea and decorate gardens
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound is a straightforward adjective+noun composition: 'blue' (a color) + 'pea' (a plant), so a B1 learner who knows both words would naturally interpret it as a pea/pea-like plant with a blue characteristic (e.g. blue flowers or pods). This follows a common cross-linguistic descriptive pattern and does not involve idiomatic or metaphorical shift, making the meaning derivable from the parts.
Etymology
Blue pea gets its name from the bright blue color of its flower and the way the bloom looks like a small pea, so the name now means this tropical plant often used in cooking and to make 'tea'.
