garden pea

1. 1.

   the flattened to cylindric inflated multi-seeded fruit of the common pea plant

   Broaderpea

   Part ofgarden pea
2. 2.

   plant producing peas usually eaten fresh rather than dried

   Synonymsgarden pea plantcommon peaPisum sativum

   Broaderpea

   Part ofPisum

   Partsgarden pea
3. 3.

   fresh pea

   Synonymsgreen pea

   Broaderpea

   Narrowersnow peasugar snap peasplit-pea

Questions about garden pea

What does garden pea mean?

garden pea means "the flattened to cylindric inflated multi-seeded fruit of the common pea plant". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for garden pea?

Close synonyms include garden pea plant, common pea, Pisum sativum, green pea. 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 garden pea a common word?

garden 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.