pea

noun

/piː/

Etymology

Etymology tree Ancient Greek πίσον (píson)bor. Latin pisum Late Latin pisader. Old English pise Middle English pese English peasebf. English pea Back-formation from pease, an original singular reinterpreted as a plural. Further from Middle English pese (“a pea”), from Old English pise, from Latin pisa, pisum, from Ancient Greek πίσον (píson).

derived from pāvō
inherited from *pāwô✻ — “peacock”
derived from pái — “peacock”
inherited from pēa
inherited from pe

Definitions

Any of certain plants of the family Fabaceae
Any of certain plants of the family Fabaceae: Pisum sativum and others.
The edible seed of Pisum sativum.
The edible seed of various other pea plants.
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1. 4
  Any of several varieties of bean.
  - peas and rice
  - Vigna unguiculata subsp. unguiculata is what most people call black-eyed peas but some people call black-eyed beans.
2. 5
  Money.
  - Man's making bare peas.
  - Oh, come on. Help a brother out. People see you coppin', might inspire them. Look, I know you ain't payin' bills right now. Man must have bare peas saved up.
3. A ball travelling at high velocity.
4. Any of the small numbered balls used in a pea shake game.
5. Ellipsis of green pea galaxy.
6. a peafowl
7. Alternative form of peak.
8. Initialism of palmitoylethanolamide.
9. Initialism of pulseless electrical activity.
10. Initialism of preliminary ecological appraisal.
11. Initialism of Portuguese East Africa.
12. Initialism of Proto-Eastern Algonquian, the proto-language of the Eastern Algonquian…
  Initialism of Proto-Eastern Algonquian, the proto-language of the Eastern Algonquian languages.
13. A surname.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for pea. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA