HEATH PEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does heath pea mean? 

• HEATH PEA (noun)
  The noun HEATH PEA has 1 sense:

1. European herb bearing small tubers used for food and in Scotland to flavor whiskey

  Familiarity information: HEATH PEA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEATH PEA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

European herb bearing small tubers used for food and in Scotland to flavor whiskey

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

earth-nut pea; earthnut pea; heath pea; Lathyrus tuberosus; tuberous vetch

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

vine (a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface)

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

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