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PEA
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Irregular inflected form: pease
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Seed of a pea plant used for food
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("pea" is a kind of...):
legume (the seedpod of a leguminous plant (such as peas or beans or lentils))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pea"):
garden pea; green pea (fresh pea)
marrowfat pea (a variety of large pea that is commonly processed and sold in cans)
cajan pea; dahl; pigeon pea (small highly nutritious seed of the tropical pigeon-pea plant)
field pea (coarse small-seeded pea often used as food when young and tender)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A leguminous plant of the genus Pisum with small white flowers and long green pods containing edible green seeds
Synonyms:
pea; pea plant
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("pea" is a kind of...):
legume; leguminous plant (an erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae)
Meronyms (parts of "pea"):
pea (the fruit or seed of a pea plant)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pea"):
common pea; garden pea; garden pea plant; Pisum sativum (plant producing peas usually eaten fresh rather than dried)
edible-pod pea; edible-podded pea; Pisum sativum macrocarpon (a variety of pea plant producing peas having soft thick edible pods lacking the fibrous inner lining of the common pea)
Austrian winter pea; field-pea plant; field pea; Pisum arvense; Pisum sativum arvense (variety of pea plant native to the Mediterranean region and North Africa and widely grown especially for forage)
Holonyms ("pea" is a member of...):
genus Pisum; Pisum (small genus of variable annual Eurasian vines: peas)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The fruit or seed of a pea plant
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("pea" is a kind of...):
legume (the fruit or seed of any of various bean or pea plants consisting of a case that splits along both sides when ripe and having the seeds attach to one side of the case)
Meronyms (parts of "pea"):
pea pod; peasecod (husk of a pea; edible in some garden peas)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pea"):
garden pea (the flattened to cylindric inflated multi-seeded fruit of the common pea plant)
Holonyms ("pea" is a part of...):
pea; pea plant (a leguminous plant of the genus Pisum with small white flowers and long green pods containing edible green seeds)
Context examples:
Once the mass has reached the size of a small garden pea, it can be detected by palpation.
(Breast Lump, NCI Thesaurus)
Pea aphids are insects that reproduce rapidly and typically give birth to offspring that don't have wings.
(Virus genes help determine if pea aphids get wings, National Science Foundation)
Earlier studies by Harvard University researcher Sam Myers and colleagues showed that wheat, maize, rice, field peas and soybeans grown under high carbon dioxide conditions all had lower levels of protein and minerals.
(Planet-Warming Gases Make Some Food Less Nutritious, Study Says, Steve Baragona/VOA)
It is found in beans, peas, brown rice, wheat bran and nuts.
(Inositol, NCI Dictionary)
The phenomenon could be exploited in beans, peas, chickpeas, lentils, peanuts, soybeans and other legumes.
(Scientists discover new antibiotic in tropical forest, National Science Foundation)
The term is now applied in a general way to many other related plants such as soybeans, peas, lentils, kidney beans, chickpeas (garbanzos), vetches and lupins.
(Bean, NCI Thesaurus)
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)
Oh, just let some peas be strewn in the ante-chamber, answered the lion, and then you will soon see.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Biologists Jennifer Brisson of the University of Rochester and Benjamin Parker of the University of Tennessee studied pea aphids and uncovered genes that influence whether aphids produce wingless or winged offspring in response to their environment.
(Virus genes help determine if pea aphids get wings, National Science Foundation)
On reaching the entrance to the forest she found the path strewed with ashes, and these she followed, throwing down some peas on either side of her at every step she took.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
