field pea

Questions about field pea

What does field pea mean?

field pea means "seed of the field pea plant". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for field pea?

Close synonyms include field-pea plant, Austrian winter pea, Pisum sativum arvense, Pisum arvense. 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 field pea a common word?

field pea is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.