field pea

field pea
noun
1. seed of the field pea plant
• Hypernyms: ↑legume
2. variety of pea plant native to the Mediterranean region and North Africa and widely grown especially for forage
• Hypernyms: ↑pea, ↑pea plant
3. coarse small-seeded pea often used as food when young and tender
• Hypernyms: ↑pea

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noun
: a pea (Pisum sativum var. arvense) native to the Mediterranean region and northern Africa that is widely grown especially in the United States and Canada for forage and food and has short flower stalks a little longer than the stipules, colored flowers, and small pods and seeds — called also Austrian winter pea

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a variety of the common pea, Pisum sativum arvense, grown for forage and silage.
[1700-10]

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field pea,
a valuable forage plant related to the cultivated pea.

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n. a pea plant of a variety grown chiefly for fodder or as green manure
Origin:
early 18th cent.: said to be so named because they were once the only agricultural peas cultivated in the UK

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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