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GARDEN PEA

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fresh pea

Synonyms:

garden pea; green pea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

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

pea (seed of a pea plant used for food)

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

snow pea; sugar pea (green peas with flat edible pods)

sugar snap pea (green peas with edible pods that are very crisp and not flat)

split-pea (dried hulled pea; used in soup)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Plant producing peas usually eaten fresh rather than dried

Synonyms:

common pea; garden pea; garden pea plant; Pisum sativum

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("garden 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 "garden pea"):

garden pea (the flattened to cylindric inflated multi-seeded fruit of the common pea plant)

Holonyms ("garden pea" is a member of...):

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

Sense 3

Meaning:

The flattened to cylindric inflated multi-seeded fruit of the common pea plant

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

pea (the fruit or seed of a pea plant)

Holonyms ("garden pea" is a part of...):

common pea; garden pea; garden pea plant; Pisum sativum (plant producing peas usually eaten fresh rather than dried)

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