MEADOW PEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does meadow pea mean? 

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

1. scrambling perennial Eurasian wild pea having yellowish flowers and compressed seed pods; cultivated for forage

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MEADOW PEA (noun)

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Meaning:

Scrambling perennial Eurasian wild pea having yellowish flowers and compressed seed pods; cultivated for forage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

common vetchling; Lathyrus pratensis; meadow pea; yellow vetchling

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

wild pea (any of various plants of the family Leguminosae that usually grow like vines)

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

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