Meaning

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

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

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

    Erbse

    горо́хgoróx, горо́шекgoróšek

    горо́хhoróx, горо́шокhoróšok

  3. The edible seed of Pisum sativum.

    Erbse

    горо́хgoróx, горо́шинаgoróšina

  4. The edible seed of various other pea plants.

    the fruit or seed of a pea plant

  5. Any of several varieties of bean.

    peas and rice

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

  6. (Multicultural London English, in the plural)Money.

    Man's making bare peas.

  7. A ball travelling at high velocity.

  8. (US)Any of the small numbered balls used in a pea shake game.

    seed of a pea plant used for food

  9. (archaic, rare)A peafowl

Examples

75 sentences
  1. Would you pass the peas, Tom?

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  2. Go buy some green peas — the frozen kind.

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  3. Tom and Mary are like two peas in a pod.

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  4. On the plate was a piece of chicken, a potato and some green peas.

    deAuf dem Teller lagen ein Stück Huhn, eine Kartoffel und Erbsen.

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  5. I like green peas.

    ruЯ люблю зелёный горошек.

    deIch mag grüne Erbsen.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
plant:
Русский
By meaning 2
plant:
edible seed:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
plant:

Origin

From having the appearance of a pea (see English etymology 1), the edible seed of Pisum

From having the appearance of a pea (see English etymology 1), the edible seed of Pisum sativum, the pea plant.

From Middle English pe, po, poue, pa, paue, from Old English pēa, pāwa (“peacock”) (compare Old English pāwe (“peahen”)) and Old Norse pái (“peacock”), both from Proto-Germanic *pāwô (“peacock”), from Latin pāvō (“peacock”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Pau, West Frisian pau, Dutch pauw, German Pfau. Doublet of Pavo.

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Forms

plural: peas

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a leguminous plant of the genus Pisum with small white flowers and long green pods containing edible green seeds:pea plant

Word family

94 related words

See also

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