indian pea

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   European annual grown for forage; seeds used for food in India and for stock elsewhere

   Synonymsgrass peakhesariLathyrus sativus

   Broadervetchling

   Part ofLathyrus

Questions about indian pea

What does indian pea mean?

indian pea means "European annual grown for forage; seeds used for food in India and for stock elsewhere".

What is another word for indian pea?

Close synonyms include grass pea, khesari, Lathyrus sativus. 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 indian pea a common word?

indian pea 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.