WILD PEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wild pea mean? 

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

1. any of various plants of the family Leguminosae that usually grow like vines

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• WILD PEA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various plants of the family Leguminosae that usually grow like vines

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

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

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

Caley pea; Lathyrus hirsutus; rough pea; singletary pea; wild winterpea (a weak-stemmed winter annual native to Mediterranean region for long established in southern United States; cultivated as a cover and pasture crop)

beach pea; Lathyrus japonicus; Lathyrus maritimus; sea pea (wild pea of seashores of north temperate zone having tough roots and purple flowers and useful as a sand binder)

Lathyrus palustris; marsh pea (scrambling perennial of damp or marshy areas of Eurasia and North America with purplish flowers)

common vetchling; Lathyrus pratensis; meadow pea; yellow vetchling (scrambling perennial Eurasian wild pea having yellowish flowers and compressed seed pods; cultivated for forage)

Lathyrus splendens; pride of California (shrubby California perennial having large pink or violet flowers; cultivated as an ornamental)

Lalthyrus tingitanus; Tangier pea; Tangier peavine (North African annual resembling the sweet pea having showy but odorless flowers)

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

Fabaceae; family Fabaceae; family Leguminosae; legume family; Leguminosae; pea family (a large family of trees, shrubs, vines, and herbs bearing bean pods; divided for convenience into the subfamilies Caesalpiniaceae; Mimosaceae; Papilionaceae)