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hog-pea

hog-pea noun: an heirloom field pea or a native vining legume, grey-brown in color.

Noun

hog-pea (plural hog-peas)

  1. An heirloom field pea or a native vining legume, grey-brown in color.
    • After many Years Experience, we Hertfordshire Farmers have found none to answer our Intereſt ſo well as the Horn-grey Hog-pea;, the Maple, the Blue, and the White. It is theſe four Sorts that we chiefly fow in our incloſed Fields, in Refuſal of all others1744, Ellis, William, chapter VII, in The modern husbandman, or, The practice of farming / by William Ellis v.2, page 62
    • we shall only state the names of those which amply repay the labour and expence of cultivation; namely, the Grey Hog-Pea1802, Unattributed, Domestic Encyclopædia, Volume 3^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Domestic_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_(1802)/Pea)
    Synonyms:
    black badger, carlin pea, grey peas, maple pea

Synonyms of hog-pea

Forms of hog-pea

pluralhog-peas

Questions about hog-pea

What does hog-pea mean?
Hog-pea means an heirloom field pea or a native vining legume, grey-brown in color.
What part of speech is hog-pea?
Hog-pea is a noun.
What is the plural of hog-pea?
The plural of hog-pea is hog-peas.

Words near hog-pea in the dictionary

  1. hog-monkey
  2. hog-monkeys
  3. hog-Morse
  4. hog-nosed skunk
  5. hog-nosed skunks
  6. hog-pea
  7. hog-pen
  8. hog-pens
  9. hog-plague
  10. hog-plum
  11. hog-plums

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