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HOARY PEA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does hoary pea mean?
• HOARY PEA (noun)
The noun HOARY PEA has 1 sense:
1. a plant of the genus Tephrosia having pinnate leaves and white or purplish flowers and flat hairy pods
Familiarity information: HOARY PEA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A plant of the genus Tephrosia having pinnate leaves and white or purplish flowers and flat hairy pods
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("hoary pea" is a kind of...):
subshrub; suffrutex (low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hoary pea"):
bastard indigo; Tephrosia purpurea (East Indian shrub)
catgut; goat's rue; Tephrosia virginiana; wild sweet pea (perennial subshrub of eastern North America having downy leaves yellowish and rose flowers and; source of rotenone)
Holonyms ("hoary pea" is a member of...):
genus Tephrosia; Tephrosia (genus of tropical and subtropical herbs or shrubs: hoary peas)
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