Word.ws English Dictionary

pea butter

pea butter noun: a culinary spread, a thick paste made from brown peas that is a substitute for peanut butter.

Noun (1)

pea butter (countable and uncountable, plural pea butters)

  1. A culinary spread, a thick paste made from brown peas that is a substitute for peanut butter.

Noun (2)

pea butter (countable and uncountable, plural pea butters)

  1. A pea extract that composes 5% of peas by weight, that is lighter than pea solids but heavier than pea liquids when pureed peas are centrifuged, which contains the majority of pea flavour compounds.

Forms of pea butter

pluralpea butters

Origin of pea butter

Formed by analogy with peanut butter.

From pea + butter. Coined by Nathan Myhrvold.

Questions about pea butter

What does pea butter mean?
Pea butter means a culinary spread, a thick paste made from brown peas that is a substitute for peanut butter.
What part of speech is pea butter?
Pea butter is a noun.
What is the plural of pea butter?
The plural of pea butter is pea butters.

Words near pea butter in the dictionary

  1. pea bean
  2. pea beans
  3. pea brain
  4. pea brains
  5. pea bug
  6. pea butter
  7. pea butters
  8. pea cake
  9. pea cakes
  10. pea clam
  11. pea clams

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pea butter (page history and authors). 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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “pea butter.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/pea_butter. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.