pea

CEFRA2

/piː/

noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A small round green seed eaten as a vegetable.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    The edible seed of Pisum sativum.

Examples

  • I like pea pods in my stir fry.

  • There's a pea in my right nostril.

At a glance

Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
1

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. Any of certain plants of the family Fabaceae: Pisum sativum and others.

  2. A plant, Pisum sativum, member of the legume (Fabaceae) family.

  3. The edible seed of various other pea plants.

More examples

In context

  • Vigna unguiculata subsp. unguiculata is what most people call black-eyed peas but some people call black-eyed beans.

  • Man's making bare peas.

  • peas and rice

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Origin

noun

Back-formation from pease, an original singular reinterpreted as a plural. Further from Middle English pese (“a pea”), from Old English pise, from Latin pisa, pisum, from Ancient Greek πίσον (píson).