split-pea soup

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   made of stock and split peas with onions carrots and celery

   Broadersoup

Questions about split-pea soup

What does split-pea soup mean?

split-pea soup means "made of stock and split peas with onions carrots and celery".

Is split-pea soup a common word?

split-pea soup 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.