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Definitions of pea

  1.   A pod- bearing vine of the bean family; its eatable seed.
  2.   A name given, especially in the Southern States, to the seed of several leguminous plants ( species of Dolichos, Cicer, Abrus, etc.) esp. those having a scar ( hilum) of a different color from the rest of the seed.
  3.   seed of a pea plant
  4.   The sliding weight on a steelyard.
  5.   A plant, and its fruit, of the genus Pisum, of many varieties, much cultivated for food. It has a papilionaceous flower, and the pericarp is a legume, popularly called a pod.
  6.   A climbing annual herb, or its edible seed.
  7.   A common vegetable:- def. pl. PEAS: indef. pl. PEASE.
  8.   A well- known plant, also its seed.
  9.   A vine and its edible seeds.
  10.   A leguminous plant and its seed.
  11.   the fruit or seed of a pea plant
  12.   See Peak, n., 3.
  13.   a leguminous plant of the genus Pisum with small white flowers and long green pods containing edible green seeds

Quotes of pea

  1. It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small. – Neil Armstrong
  2. I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea – C. S. Forester
  3. Look at the man go, its like trying to stop a water -buffalo with a pea -shooter. – Sid Waddell

Usage examples for pea

  1. “ The beautiful creature recognised his master's voice, and neighing with joy, greedily devoured the pea straw. ” – Fairy Tales of the Slav Peasants and Herdsmen by Alexander Chodsko
  2. “ It cannot eat fish, for its slender throat would scarcely admit a pea ” – Concerning Animals and Other Matters by E.H. Aitken, (AKA Edward Hamilton)
  3. “ It's like pea soup outside. ” – The Green Mummy by Fergus Hume
  4. “ We shall next demonstrate that it was alternately placed, on the Maya Caban glyph, with a curious sign consisting of a pea shaped black dot, to which a curved and wavy line is attached. ” – The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations by Zelia Nuttall
  5. “ Them times she was as like the Colonel as one pea is like another, and her eyes fairly snapped. ” – The Cromptons by Mary J. Holmes
  6. “ Of all possible kinds of students, he alone has found the pea ” – An American at Oxford by John Corbin
  7. “ The pea green colour of the sky is often due to contrast, for the contrast colour to red is green, and this would make the blue of the sky appear decidedly greener. ” – Colour Measurement and Mixture by W. de W. Abney
  8. “ Whether " pea jacket" belongs in part to this family, I will not attempt to decide. ” – The English Gipsies and Their Language by Charles G. Leland
  9. “ The little captain toyed with the buttons of his pea jacket. ” – The Ice Pilot by Henry Leverage
  10. “ We'll every one wear a sweet pea all day! ” – Polly of the Hospital Staff by Emma C. Dowd
  11. “ But the Pea Emperor was almost dead with anxiety. ” – Roumanian Fairy Tales by Various Compiler: Mite Kremnitz
  12. “ You're right," he said, " it belongs to the Pea Family." ” – The Story of My Boyhood and Youth by John Muir
  13. “ Delicious waves of color, like the petals of a pink sweet- pea are racing over her cheeks and throat. ” – Nancy A Novel by Rhoda Broughton
  14. “ Some of them grow to the Size of a Pea and some still a little larger; but this never happens to the greatest Number of them. ” – Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by Samuel Auguste David Tissot
  15. “ At noon drawd a little meat and pea broth. ” – American Prisoners of the Revolution by Danske Dandridge
  16. “ If she felt the pea it was plain that she was a true princess. ” – The Negro and the elective franchise. A Series Of Papers And A Sermon (The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers, No. 11.) by Archibald H. Grimké, Charles C. Cook, John Hope, John L. Love, Kelly Miller, and Rev. Frank J. Grimké
  17. “ In the night Pea pea and Maui's wife lay down to sleep. ” – Legends of Ma-ui--a demi god of Polynesia, and of his mother Hina by W. D. Westervelt
  18. “ Put them into a stewpan with two tablespoonfuls of oil and a piece of garlic the size of a pea and shake them over a clear fire till slightly browned all over. ” – Dressed Game and Poultry à la Mode by Harriet A. de Salis
  19. “ Than this South- European Pea flower, perhaps not another member of the family is more worthy of culture, the neat, elegant habit of growth and profusion of flowers rendering it a plant of particular interest and beauty. ” – Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs by A. D. Webster
  20. “ This, however, is not always the case, for sometimes a thin discharge will take place, which, if the part be examined, will be found to proceed from a small growth about the size, perhaps, of a pea or even less. ” – The Maternal Management of Children, in Health and Disease. by Thomas Bull, M.D.

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