FLAT PEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does flat pea mean? 

• FLAT PEA (noun)
  The noun FLAT PEA has 2 senses:

1. evergreen shrub having almost heart-shaped foliage and bright yellow pea-like flowers followed by flat pods with flat wings; Australia and Tasmania

2. European perennial with mottled flowers of purple and pink; sometimes cultivated for fodder or as green manure

  Familiarity information: FLAT PEA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FLAT PEA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Evergreen shrub having almost heart-shaped foliage and bright yellow pea-like flowers followed by flat pods with flat wings; Australia and Tasmania

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

flat pea; Platylobium formosum

Hypernyms ("flat pea" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Holonyms ("flat pea" is a member of...):

genus Platylobium; Platylobium (small genus of Australian evergreen leguminous shrubs or subshrubs)

Sense 2

Meaning:

European perennial with mottled flowers of purple and pink; sometimes cultivated for fodder or as green manure

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

flat pea; Lathyrus sylvestris; narrow-leaved everlasting pea

Hypernyms ("flat pea" is a kind of...):

everlasting pea (any of several perennial vines of the genus Lathyrus)

Holonyms ("flat pea" is a member of...):

genus Lathyrus; Lathyrus (genus of climbing herbs of Old World and temperate North and South America: vetchling; wild pea)