1. pea(n = noun.food) - seed of a pea plant used for food;
is a kind of legume
has particulars: garden pea, green pea, marrowfat pea, cajan pea, dahl, pigeon pea, field pea
2. pea(n = noun.plant) - the fruit or seed of a pea plant;
is a kind of legume
is a part of pea, pea plant
has parts: pea pod, peasecod
has particulars: garden pea
3. pea(n = noun.plant) pea plant - a leguminous plant of the genus Pisum with small white flowers and long green pods containing edible green seeds;
is a kind of legume, leguminous plant
has parts: pea
is a member of genus pisum, pisum
has particulars: common pea, garden pea, garden pea plant, pisum sativum, edible-pod pea, edible-podded pea, pisum sativum macrocarpon, austrian winter pea, field-pea plant, field pea, pisum arvense, pisum sativum arvense
The sliding weight on a steelyard. [1913 Webster]
See Peak,
1. A plant, and its fruit, of the genus
" When a definite number, more than one, is spoken of, the plural form peas is used; as, the pod contained nine peas; but, in a collective sense, the form pease is preferred; as, a bushel of pease; they had pease at dinner. This distinction is not always preserved, the form peas being used in both senses." [1913 Webster]
2. A name given, especially in the Southern States, to the seed of several leguminous plants (species of
" The name pea is given to many leguminous plants more or less closely related to the common pea. See the Phrases, below." [1913 Webster]
pea, n.
1 a a hardy climbing plant, Pisum sativum, with seeds growing in pods and used for food. b its seed.
2 any of several similar plants (sweet pea; chick-pea).
Idiom:
pea-brain colloq. a stupid or dim-witted person. pea-green bright green. pea-souper Brit. colloq. a thick yellowish fog.
Etymology:
back-form. f. PEASE (taken as pl.: cf. CHERRY)
N rotundity, roundness, cylindricity, sphericity, spheroidity, globosity, cylinder, cylindroid, cylindrical, barrel, drum, roll, roller, rouleau, column, rolling-pin, rundle, cone, conoid, pear shape, egg shape, bell shape, sphere, globe, ball, boulder, bowlder, spheroid, ellipsoid, oblong spheroid, oblate spheroid, prolate spheroid, drop, spherule, globule, vesicle, bulb, bullet, pellet, pelote, clew, pill, marble, pea, knob, pommel, horn, knot (convolution), curved surface, hypersphere, hyperdimensional surface, rotund, round, cylindric, cylindrical, cylindroid, columnar, lumbriciform, conic, conical, spherical, spheroidal, globular, globated, globous, globose, egg shaped, bell shaped, pear shaped, ovoid, oviform, gibbous, rixiform, campaniform, campanulate, campaniliform, fungiform, bead-like, moniliform, pyriform, bulbous, tres atque rotundus, round as an orange, round as an apple, round as a ball, round as a billiard ball, round as a cannon ball.
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