SWEET PEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sweet pea mean? 

• SWEET PEA (noun)
  The noun SWEET PEA has 1 sense:

1. climbing garden plant having fragrant pastel-colored flowers

  Familiarity information: SWEET PEA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SWEET PEA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Climbing garden plant having fragrant pastel-colored flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Lathyrus odoratus; sweet pea; sweetpea

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

vine (a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface)

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

genus Lathyrus; Lathyrus (genus of climbing herbs of Old World and temperate North and South America: vetchling; wild pea)

 Context examples 

Beth had old-fashioned fragrant flowers in her garden, sweet peas and mignonette, larkspur, pinks, pansies, and southernwood, with chickweed for the birds and catnip for the pussies.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)