pea
Any of certain plants of the family Fabaceae: Pisum sativum and others.
Other meanings
A plant, Pisum sativum, member of the legume (Fabaceae) family.
The edible seed of Pisum sativum.
A kind of
- legume
Kinds of pea
- green pea
- pigeon pea
- field pea
Example sentences
Word history
From Ancient Greek "πίσον".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “pea” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.