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AUSTRIAN WINTER PEA

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Meaning:

Variety of pea plant native to the Mediterranean region and North Africa and widely grown especially for forage

Synonyms:

Austrian winter pea; field-pea plant; field pea; Pisum arvense; Pisum sativum arvense

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Austrian winter pea" is a kind of...):

pea; pea plant (a leguminous plant of the genus Pisum with small white flowers and long green pods containing edible green seeds)

Meronyms (parts of "Austrian winter pea"):

field pea (coarse small-seeded pea often used as food when young and tender)

field pea (seed of the field pea plant)

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