butterfly pea

Questions about butterfly pea

What does butterfly pea mean?

butterfly pea means "vine of tropical Asia having pinnate leaves and bright blue flowers with yellow centers". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for butterfly pea?

Close synonyms include blue pea, Clitoria turnatea, Clitoria mariana, Centrosema virginianum. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is butterfly pea a common word?

butterfly pea is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.