pigeon-pea plant

Questions about pigeon-pea plant

What does pigeon-pea plant mean?

pigeon-pea plant means "tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods; much cultivated in the tropics".

What is another word for pigeon-pea plant?

Close synonyms include pigeon pea, cajan pea, catjang pea, red gram, dhal. 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 pigeon-pea plant a common word?

pigeon-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.