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ROUGH PEA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does rough pea mean?
• ROUGH PEA (noun)
The noun ROUGH PEA has 1 sense:
1. a weak-stemmed winter annual native to Mediterranean region for long established in southern United States; cultivated as a cover and pasture crop
Familiarity information: ROUGH PEA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A weak-stemmed winter annual native to Mediterranean region for long established in southern United States; cultivated as a cover and pasture crop
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Caley pea; Lathyrus hirsutus; rough pea; singletary pea; wild winterpea
Hypernyms ("rough pea" is a kind of...):
wild pea (any of various plants of the family Leguminosae that usually grow like vines)
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