purple pea

1. 1.

   any of several attractive evergreen shrubs of Australia grown for their glossy deep green foliage and flowers in rich blues and intense violets

   Synonymshovea

   Broadershrub

   Part ofgenus Hovea

Questions about purple pea

What does purple pea mean?

purple pea means "any of several attractive evergreen shrubs of Australia grown for their glossy deep green foliage and flowers in rich blues and intense violets".

What is another word for purple pea?

Close synonyms include hovea. 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 purple pea a common word?

purple 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.