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sweet pea

sweet pea noun: a flowering plant, Lathyrus odoratus, grown for its bright colours and sweet fragrance.

Noun

sweet pea (plural sweet peas)

  1. A flowering plant, Lathyrus odoratus, grown for its bright colours and sweet fragrance.
    • No one had such pinks as he had; his sweet-william was unrivaled,—he had only half a dozen geraniums, but then they were such geraniums,—the cottage, once an unsightly little mass of lath and plaster, was now besprinkled with roses; and then, his sweet peas were in blossom, and, fortunately for him...1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter IX, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 162
  2. (colloquial) A term of endearment for something sweet or lovely; a child or an intimate partner, for example.
    • He was a nice enough fellow, the boyfriendo. Sweet pea with Jo.2004, Janet Davey, “Saturday”, in First Aid, London: Chatto & Windus, →ISBN, section 6

sweet pea meaning in Tagalog, Arabic and Vietnamese

sweet pea in Tagalog

flowering plant
gisantes

sweet pea in Arabic

flowering plant
بَازِلَّاء الزُهُور bāzillāʔ az-zuhūr

sweet pea in Vietnamese

flowering plant
hương đậu

Forms of sweet pea

pluralsweet peas
alternative formsweetpea

Questions about sweet pea

What does sweet pea mean?
Sweet pea means a flowering plant, Lathyrus odoratus, grown for its bright colours and sweet fragrance.
What is sweet pea in Tagalog?
Sweet pea in Tagalog is gisantes. See Sweet pea meaning in Tagalog.
What part of speech is sweet pea?
Sweet pea is a noun.
What is the plural of sweet pea?
The plural of sweet pea is sweet peas.

Words near sweet pea in the dictionary

  1. sweet oils
  2. sweet on
  3. sweet orange
  4. sweet oranges
  5. sweet osmanthus
  6. sweet pea
  7. sweet peas
  8. sweet pepper
  9. sweet pepperbush
  10. sweet pepperbushes
  11. sweet peppers

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