FIELD-PEA PLANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does field-pea plant mean? 

• FIELD-PEA PLANT (noun)
  The noun FIELD-PEA PLANT has 1 sense:

1. variety of pea plant native to the Mediterranean region and North Africa and widely grown especially for forage

  Familiarity information: FIELD-PEA PLANT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FIELD-PEA PLANT (noun)

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Meaning:

Variety of pea plant native to the Mediterranean region and North Africa and widely grown especially for forage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Austrian winter pea; field-pea plant; field pea; Pisum arvense; Pisum sativum arvense

Hypernyms ("field-pea plant" is a kind of...):

pea; pea plant (a leguminous plant of the genus Pisum with small white flowers and long green pods containing edible green seeds)

Meronyms (parts of "field-pea plant"):

field pea (coarse small-seeded pea often used as food when young and tender)

field pea (seed of the field pea plant)