split-pea

1. 1.

   dried hulled pea; used in soup

   Broadergreen pea

Questions about split-pea

What does split-pea mean?

split-pea means "dried hulled pea; used in soup".

How many syllables are in split-pea?

split-pea has 3 syllables: split--pe-a. The stress falls on "split-".

Is split-pea a common word?

split-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.