pea
/piː/
pea noun: any of certain plants of the family Fabaceae: Pisum sativum and others. Also the ellipsis of green pea galaxy.
Noun (1)
pea (plural peas or (archaic) pease)
- Any of certain plants of the family Fabaceae: Pisum sativum and others.
- A plant, Pisum sativum, member of the legume (Fabaceae) family.
- Below, long rows of peas put forth their white-winged flowers, tempting the small butterflies to flutter round their inanimate likenesses;...1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXVI, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 277
- A plant, Pisum sativum, member of the legume (Fabaceae) family.
- The edible seed of Pisum sativum.
- The edible seed of various other pea plants.
- 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.
- Money.
- Man's making bare peas.
- Oh, come on. Help a brother out. People see you coppin', might inspire them. Look, I know you ain't payin' bills right now. Man must have bare peas saved up.2023, Nathan Bryon, Tom Melia, directed by Raine Allen-Miller, Rye Lane, spoken by Nathan (Simon Manyonda)
Noun (2)
pea (plural peas)
Noun (3)
pea (plural peas)
- a peafowl
Noun (4) capitalized: PEA
PEA (countable and uncountable, plural PEAs)
- Initialism of palmitoylethanolamide.
- Initialism of pulseless electrical activity.
- Initialism of preliminary ecological appraisal.
Proper noun (1) capitalized: PEA
PEA
- Initialism of Portuguese East Africa.
- Initialism of Proto-Eastern Algonquian, the proto-language of the Eastern Algonquian languages.
Proper noun (2) capitalized: Pea
Pea (plural Peas)
- A surname.
Also used as
pea is also the ellipsis of green pea galaxy.
pea is also the alternative form of peak.
pea meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
pea in Hindi
- edible seed
- मटर maṭar
- plant
- मटर maṭar
pea in Tamil
- edible seed
- பட்டாணி paṭṭāṇi
pea in Marathi
- edible seed
- वाटाणा vāṭāṇā
- plant
- मटार maṭār, वाटाणा vāṭāṇā
pea in Urdu
- edible seed
- مٹر maṭar
- plant
- مٹر maṭar
More languagesFewer languages
- pea in Bengali
- মটর moṭor
- pea in Telugu
- బఠానీ
- pea in Malayalam
- പയർ
- pea in Kannada
- ಬಟಾಣಿ
- pea in Punjabi
- ਮਟਰ maṭar
- pea in Gujarati
- વટાણું
- pea in Sinhala
- කඩල kaḍala
- pea in Assamese
- মটৰ motor, মটৰমাহ motormah, মটৰ গছ
- pea in Nepali
- टाउको ṭāuko
- pea in Tagalog
- gisantes
- pea in Arabic
- بَازِلَّاء bāzillāʔ
- pea in Malay
- pis
- pea in Indonesian
- ercis
- pea in Persian
- نخود noxod, نخود سبز noxod-sabz, نخود فرنگی noxowd-e farangi
- pea in Thai
- ถั่ว tùua, ลันเตา lan-dtao
- pea in Vietnamese
- đậu, cây đậu
- pea in Myanmar
- ပဲ pai:, စားတော်ပဲ ca:taupai:
Examples of pea in a sentence
- I will deduct the cost of the can of peas from the money I owe you.
- We backfilled the cistern with pea gravel to discourage its use as a refuse container.
- He ate the peas on his plate one at a time.
Forms of pea
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | peas |
| plural | PEAs |
| plural (archaic) | pease |
| alternative form (archaic) | pease |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Peas |
| alternative form | Pee |
Origin of pea
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).
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.
Words formed from pea
- asparagus pea
- beach pea
- black-eyed pea
- bonavist pea
- breadroot scurf pea
- butterfly pea
- Campo pea
- Carlin pea
- chickling pea
- chick-pea
- chick pea
- chickpea
- Congo pea
- crowder pea
- crown pea
- Darling pea
- desert pea
- earthpea
- earth pea
- Egyptian pea
- English pea
- field pea
- garden pea
- glory pea
- golden pea
- goober pea
- grass pea
- grass-pea
- green pea
- green pea galaxy
- ground pea
- gungo pea
- hairy Darling pea
- heartpea
- heath pea
- hoarypea
- Indian pea
- issue pea
- like two peas in a pod
- milk pea
- orris pea
- partridge pea
- pea and thimble
- pea aphid
- pea bean
- peaberry
- Peabody
- peabrain
- peabrained
- pea-brained
- pea brain
- pea-brain
- pea bug
- pea butter
- pea-cake
- pea cake
- pea clam
- pea coat
- pea-coated
- pea comb
Phrases with pea
- hog pea
- pea nut
- pea ore
- pea pod
- pea wet
- red pea
- sea pea
- pea crab
- pea lice
- pea moth
- pea nuts
- pea ores
69 more phrasesFewer phrases
- pea pods
- pea soup
- snap pea
- snow pea
- pea beans
- pea cakes
- pea clams
- pea coats
- pea combs
- pea crabs
- pea flour
- pea green
- pea louse
- pea moths
- pea patch
- pea shake
- pea soups
- split pea
- sugar pea
- sweet pea
- wedge pea
- marrow pea
- pea aphids
- pea brains
- pea flours
- pea galaxy
- pea gravel
- pea greens
- pea jacket
- pea roller
- pea shakes
- pea souper
- pigeon pea
- rosary pea
- scurfy pea
- string pea
- winged pea
- yellow pea
- pea butters
- pea gravels
- pea jackets
- pea patches
- pea rollers
- pea soupers
- pea whistle
- Tangier pea
- pea eggplant
- pea galaxies
- pea soup fog
- pea whistles
- Swainson pea
- pea eggplants
- pea soup fogs
- sensitive pea
- Black Eyed Pea
- sugar snap pea
- white pea bean
- thimble and pea
- white pea beans
- Siberian pea tree
- water blossom pea
- green pea galaxies
- Siberian pea trees
- Sturt's desert pea
- tear up the pea patch
- tore up the pea patch
- torn up the pea patch
- tears up the pea patch
- tearing up the pea patch
Words that rhyme with pea
Questions about pea
- What does pea mean?
- Pea means any of certain plants of the family Fabaceae: Pisum sativum and others.
- What is pea in Hindi?
- Pea in Hindi is मटर (maṭar). See Pea meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is pea?
- Pea can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce pea?
- Pea is pronounced /piː/.
- What is the plural of pea?
- The plural of pea is peas.
Words near pea in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: pea (page history and authors); PEA (page history and authors); Pea (page history and authors); pea (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pea (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pea (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pea (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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