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PEA PLANT

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Meaning:

A leguminous plant of the genus Pisum with small white flowers and long green pods containing edible green seeds

Synonyms:

pea; pea plant

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Nouns denoting plants

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

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

Meronyms (parts of "pea plant"):

pea (the fruit or seed of a pea plant)

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

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 plant" is a member of...):

genus Pisum; Pisum (small genus of variable annual Eurasian vines: peas)

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