noun
1. the flattened to cylindric inflated multi-seeded fruit of the common pea plant
• Hypernyms: ↑pea
• Part Holonyms: ↑garden pea plant, ↑common pea, ↑Pisum sativum
2. plant producing peas usually eaten fresh rather than dried
• Syn: ↑garden pea plant, ↑common pea, ↑Pisum sativum
• Member Holonyms: ↑Pisum, ↑genus Pisum
3. fresh pea
• Syn: ↑green pea
• Hypernyms: ↑pea
• Hyponyms: ↑snow pea, ↑sugar pea, ↑sugar snap pea, ↑split-pea
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nounsee pea I
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pea1 (defs. 1-3).
[1620-30]
Useful english dictionary. 2012.