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PISUM SATIVUM

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Plant producing peas usually eaten fresh rather than dried

Synonyms:

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

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Pisum sativum" 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 "Pisum sativum"):

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

Holonyms ("Pisum sativum" is a member of...):

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

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