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PISUM SATIVUM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Pisum sativum mean?
• PISUM SATIVUM (noun)
The noun PISUM SATIVUM has 1 sense:
1. plant producing peas usually eaten fresh rather than dried
Familiarity information: PISUM SATIVUM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Plant producing peas usually eaten fresh rather than dried
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
common pea; garden pea; garden pea plant; Pisum sativum
Hypernyms ("Pisum sativum" is a kind of...):
pea; pea plant (a leguminous plant of the genus Pisum with small white flowers and long green pods containing edible green seeds)
Meronyms (parts of "Pisum sativum"):
garden pea (the flattened to cylindric inflated multi-seeded fruit of the common pea plant)
Holonyms ("Pisum sativum" is a member of...):
genus Pisum; Pisum (small genus of variable annual Eurasian vines: peas)
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