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Definition of pea noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

pea

noun
 
/piː/
 
/piː/
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  1. a small round green seed, eaten as a vegetable. Several peas grow together inside a long thin pod on a climbing plant also called a pea.
    • frozen peas
    • pea soup
    see also black-eyed pea, chickpea, marrowfat pea, mushy peas, snow pea, split pea, sweet peaTopics Fooda2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • canned
    • dried
    • fresh
    • …
    verb + pea
    • eat
    • have
    • shell
    • …
    pea + noun
    • soup
    • pod
    • shoot
    • …
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    Word Originmid 17th cent.: back-formation from pease (interpreted as plural).
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