Noun: pea
Sample Sentences
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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:]
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peas and rice
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Vigna unguiculata subsp. unguiculata is what most people call black-eyed peas but some people call black-eyed beans.
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Man's making bare peas.
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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):]
Nouns inflected like pea
pea,
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Ancient Greek πίσον (píson)bor.
3. Latin pisum
4. Late Latin pisader.
5. Old English pise
6. Middle English pese
7. English peasebf.
8. English pea
9. 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). See: Middle English Nouns '
pese', Old English Nouns '
pise', Latin Nouns '
pisa', Ancient Greek Nouns '
πίσον'.
Verbs referencing "pea"
Dutch Nouns
kluwe.