yellow pea
- noun
- US
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guisante amarillo
- Botanists studied the yellow pea for its drought resistance.
Examples
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The yellow pea plant thrives in sunny areas.
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The garden was filled with the bright blossoms of the yellow pea in early summer.
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A yellow pea bush grew wild along the hiking trail.
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Many gardeners love to grow yellow peas in their vegetable patches.
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In the garden, I admired the beautiful yellow pea flowers blooming in the sunlight.
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Farmers often plant yellow pea plants for their vibrant blossoms and nutritious seeds.
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The yellow pea is known for attracting pollinators with its bright and cheerful flowers.
Synonyms
A bushy plant with bright yellow, pea-shaped flowers from western United States
A bushy flowering plant with large leaves and bright yellow, pea-like flowers in the western United States
A plant with leaves in three parts and clusters of yellow or purple flowers
A bushy wild plant from the western United States with yellow, pea-shaped flowers that look like lupines
How Flowering
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Morphology
The compound is a straightforward adjective + noun combination where 'yellow' specifies the color of the 'pea' (or a pea-like plant), so the overall meaning is directly and compositionally derivable from the constituents. This follows a common cross-linguistic pattern for colour + noun noun phrases and contains no idiomatic or metaphorical shift, making it immediately comprehensible to learners who know both words.
Etymology
Yellow pea is a simple name that comes from the plant's look: it has bright yellow flowers that are pea-shaped, so people combined yellow + pea. So today yellow pea means 'a bushy plant with yellow, pea-like flowers'.