field-pea plant

What does field-pea plant mean?

field-pea plant means "variety of pea plant native to the Mediterranean region and North Africa and widely grown especially for forage".

What is another word for field-pea plant?

Close synonyms include field pea, 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 plant a common word?

field-pea plant is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for field-pea plant come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.