PEA (pease)

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Irregular inflected form: pease   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does pea mean? 

• PEA (noun)
  The noun PEA has 3 senses:

1. seed of a pea plant used for food

2. the fruit or seed of a pea plant

3. a leguminous plant of the genus Pisum with small white flowers and long green pods containing edible green seeds

  Familiarity information: PEA used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PEA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Seed of a pea plant used for food

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("pea" is a kind of...):

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pea"):

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The fruit or seed of a pea plant

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("pea" is a kind 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)

Meronyms (parts of "pea"):

pea pod; peasecod (husk of a pea; edible in some garden peas)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pea"):

garden pea (the flattened to cylindric inflated multi-seeded fruit of the common pea plant)

Holonyms ("pea" is a part of...):

pea; pea plant (a leguminous plant of the genus Pisum with small white flowers and long green pods containing edible green seeds)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A leguminous plant of the genus Pisum with small white flowers and long green pods containing edible green seeds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

pea; pea plant

Hypernyms ("pea" is a kind of...):

legume; leguminous plant (an erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae)

Meronyms (parts of "pea"):

pea (the fruit or seed of a pea plant)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pea"):

common pea; garden pea; garden pea plant; Pisum sativum (plant producing peas usually eaten fresh rather than dried)

edible-pod pea; edible-podded pea; Pisum sativum macrocarpon (a variety of pea plant producing peas having soft thick edible pods lacking the fibrous inner lining of the common pea)

Austrian winter pea; field-pea plant; field pea; Pisum arvense; Pisum sativum arvense (variety of pea plant native to the Mediterranean region and North Africa and widely grown especially for forage)

Holonyms ("pea" is a member of...):

genus Pisum; Pisum (small genus of variable annual Eurasian vines: peas)

 Context examples 

Cerebral organoids are small spheres of human brain cells ranging in size from that of a poppy seed to a small pea.

(Cerebral organoid model provides clues about how to prevent virus-induced brain cell death, National Institutes of Health)

The king was well pleased with the counsel, and caused the peas to be strewn.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Yet, ere the last string had twanged, he would be down on his four bones among the stricken, and have them all houseled and shriven, as quick as shelling peas.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Purines are in your body's tissues and in foods, such as liver, dried beans and peas, and anchovies.

(Gout, NIH: National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases)

Alpha-lipoic acid is made by the body and can be found in foods such as organ meats, spinach, broccoli, peas, brussel sprouts, and rice bran.

(Alpha-lipoic acid, NCI Dictionary)

Leafy green vegetables, beans, and peas also have B vitamins.

(B Vitamins, NIH)

Foods with folic acid in them include: • Leafy green vegetables • Fruits • Dried beans, peas, and nuts • Enriched breads, cereals and other grain products

(Folic Acid, NIH: National Institutes of Health Office of Dietary Supplements)

By Jove! my dear fellow, it is nearly nine, and the landlady babbled of green peas at seven-thirty.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In each bladder was a small quantity of dried peas, or little pebbles, as I was afterwards informed.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Folic acid is the synthetic form of folate, or vitamin B9, which is found in leafy green vegetables, nuts, peas, beans and other foods.

(Daily folic acid supplement may reduce risk of gestational diabetes, National Institutes of Health)