wild sweet pea

1. 1.

   perennial subshrub of eastern North America having downy leaves yellowish and rose flowers and; source of rotenone

   Synonymscatgutgoat's rueTephrosia virginiana

   Broaderhoary pea

Questions about wild sweet pea

What does wild sweet pea mean?

wild sweet pea means "perennial subshrub of eastern North America having downy leaves yellowish and rose flowers and; source of rotenone".

What is another word for wild sweet pea?

Close synonyms include catgut, goat's rue, Tephrosia virginiana. 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 wild sweet pea a common word?

wild sweet 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.