pea
has definitions from the fields of chemistry,food,botany
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[ noun ] (chemistry,food) seed of a pea plant
Used in print (John Harnsberger and Robert P. Wilkins,...)With these completed and ice gone from the St._Peter's_River ( present-day Minnesota river ) their 250 bushels of wheat , 100 bushels of oats and barley and 30 bushels of peas and some chickens were loaded onto the flat-bottomed boats and rowed up the river to Big_Stone_Lake , across into Lake_Traverse , and down the Red . (Bell I. Wiley, "Home Letters of Johnny Reb and Billy...)A third wrote that it was `` raining like poring peas on a rawhide '' . (Mignon G. Eberhart, The Cup, the Blade...)She doled_out what Glendora vaguely guessed were the right amounts of dried peas , eggs , cornmeal , a little salt . Related terms |
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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 20036
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[ noun ] (botany) the fruit or seed of a pea plant
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[ noun ] (botany) a leguminous plant of the genus Pisum with small white flowers and long green pods containing edible green seeds
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