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SWEETPEA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does sweetpea mean?
• SWEETPEA (noun)
The noun SWEETPEA has 1 sense:
1. climbing garden plant having fragrant pastel-colored flowers
Familiarity information: SWEETPEA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Climbing garden plant having fragrant pastel-colored flowers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Lathyrus odoratus; sweet pea; sweetpea
Hypernyms ("sweetpea" is a kind of...):
vine (a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface)
Holonyms ("sweetpea" is a member of...):
genus Lathyrus; Lathyrus (genus of climbing herbs of Old World and temperate North and South America: vetchling; wild pea)
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