pea

DEFINITIONS OF: pea

Types:: show 5 types...; hide 5 types...; Pisum sativum, common pea, garden pea, garden pea plant
plant producing peas usually eaten fresh rather than dried; Pisum sativum macrocarpon, edible-pod pea, edible-podded pea
a variety of pea plant producing peas having soft thick edible pods lacking the fibrous inner lining of the common pea; Austrian winter pea, Pisum arvense, Pisum sativum arvense, field pea, field-pea plant
variety of pea plant native to the Mediterranean region and North Africa and widely grown especially for forage; snow pea, sugar pea
variety of pea plant producing peas having thin flat edible pods; snap pea, sugar snap pea
variety of pea plant producing peas having crisp rounded edible pods

Type of:: legume, leguminous plant
an erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae

Types:: show 7 types...; hide 7 types...; garden pea, green pea
fresh pea; marrowfat pea
a variety of large pea that is commonly processed and sold in cans; cajan pea, dahl, pigeon pea
small highly nutritious seed of the tropical pigeon-pea plant; field pea
coarse small-seeded pea often used as food when young and tender; snow pea, sugar pea
green peas with flat edible pods; sugar snap pea
green peas with edible pods that are very crisp and not flat; split-pea
dried hulled pea; used in soup

Type of:: legume
the seedpod of a leguminous plant (such as peas or beans or lentils)

Types:: garden pea
the flattened to cylindric inflated multi-seeded fruit of the common pea plant

Type of:: legume
the fruit or seed of any of various bean or pea plants consisting of a case that splits along both sides when ripe and having the seeds attach to one side of the case

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