Meaning

4 senses
  1. Any of several similar leguminous plants with showy scarlet or crimson flowers.

    Sturt's desert pea (Swainsona formosa, syn. Clianthus dampieri), of Australia and New Zealand.

  2. Kakabeaks (Cilanthus spp.)

  3. Kakabeaks (Cilanthus spp.)

    Especially, northern kakabeak (Clianthus puniceus), of Australia and New Zealand.

  4. Any of several similar leguminous plants with showy scarlet or crimson flowers.

    Scarlet sesbane (Sesbania punicea), native from Brazil to Argentina, cultivated widely, but invasive.

More definitions
  • any of various shrubs or vines of the genus Clianthus having compound leaves and pea-like red flowers in drooping racemes

Forms

plural: glory peas
Singularglory pea
Pluralglory peas

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • any of various shrubs or vines of the genus Clianthus having compound leaves and pea-like red flowers in drooping racemes:clianthus

See also

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