pea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /piː/
homophone: P
homophone: pee
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: peas
form: pease
form: pease
Etymology: Back-formation from pease, an original singular reinterpreted as a plural. Further from Middle English pese (“a pea”), from Old English pise, from Latin pisa, pisum, from Ancient Greek πίσον (píson).
Senses: coordinate_terms: bean
glosses: Any of certain plants of the family Fabaceae: Pisum sativum and others.
examples: text: Below, long rows of peas put forth their white-winged flowers, tempting the small butterflies to flutter round their inanimate likenesses;...
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXVI, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 277:
coordinate_terms: bean
glosses: Any of certain plants of the family Fabaceae: Pisum sativum and others.
A plant, Pisum sativum, member of the legume (Fabaceae) family.
qualifier: when without a qualifier
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: The edible seed of Pisum sativum.
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: The edible seed of various other pea plants.
examples: text: peas and rice
text: Vigna unguiculata subsp. unguiculata is what most people call black-eyed peas but some people call black-eyed beans.
glosses: Any of several varieties of bean.
examples: text: Man's making bare peas.
text: Oh, come on. Help a brother out. People see you coppin', might inspire them. Look, I know you ain't payin' bills right now. Man must have bare peas saved up.
ref: 2023, Nathan Bryon, Tom Melia, directed by Raine Allen-Miller, Rye Lane, spoken by Nathan (Simon Manyonda):
glosses: Money.
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from pea (noun)
word: asparagus pea
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word: beach pea
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word: black-eyed pea
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word: bonavist pea
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word: breadroot scurf pea
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word: butterfly pea
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word: Campo pea
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word: Carlin pea
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word: chickling pea
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word: chick-pea
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word: chick pea
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word: chickpea
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word: Congo pea
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word: crowder pea
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word: crown pea
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word: Darling pea
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word: desert pea
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word: earthpea
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word: earth pea
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word: Egyptian pea
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word: English pea
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word: field pea
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word: garden pea
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word: glory pea
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word: golden pea
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word: goober pea
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word: grass pea
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word: grass-pea
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word: green pea
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word: green pea galaxy
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word: ground pea
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word: gungo pea
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word: hairy Darling pea
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word: heartpea
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word: heath pea
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word: hoarypea
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word: Indian pea
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word: issue pea
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word: like two peas in a pod
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word: milk pea
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word: orris pea
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word: partridge pea
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word: pea aphid
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word: pea bean
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word: peaberry
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word: Peabody
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word: peabrain
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word: pea-brained
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word: peabrained
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word: pea brain
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word: pea-brain
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word: pea butter
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word: pea-cake
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word: pea cake
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word: pea clam
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word: pea coat
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word: pea-coated
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word: pea comb
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word: pea-combed
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word: pea crab
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word: pea eggplant
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word: pea flour
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word: pea galaxy
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word: peagoose
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word: pea gravel
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word: pea green
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word: peagrit
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word: peagrowing
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word: pea jacket
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word: pea-jacketed
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word: pea-knuckle
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word: pea-knuckle war
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word: pealess
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word: pealike
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word: pea louse
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word: pea-maggot
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word: peameal
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word: peamole
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word: pea moth
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word: peaness
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word: peanut
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word: pea ore
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word: pea patch
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word: pea pod
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word: peapod
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word: pea roller
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word: pea shingle
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word: peashooter
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word: pea-shooter
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word: pea-sized
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word: peason
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word: pea soup
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word: pea-souper
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word: pea soup fog
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word: pea-soup fog
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word: peastone
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word: peasy
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word: pea-time
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word: pea-time is past
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word: pea wet
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word: pea whistle
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word: pigeon pea
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word: red pea
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word: rice and peas
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word: rosary pea
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word: scurfy pea
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word: sea pea
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word: sensitive pea
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word: Siberian pea-tree
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word: Siberian pea tree
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word: snap pea
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word: snow pea
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word: split pea
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word: string pea
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word: Sturt's desert pea
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word: sugar pea
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word: sugar snap pea
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word: Swainson pea
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word: sweet pea
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word: Tangier pea
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word: tear up the pea patch
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word: the last of pea-time
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word: water blossom pea
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word: wedge pea
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word: white pea bean
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word: yellow pea