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WILD SWEET PEA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does wild sweet pea mean?
• WILD SWEET PEA (noun)
The noun WILD SWEET PEA has 1 sense:
1. perennial subshrub of eastern North America having downy leaves yellowish and rose flowers and; source of rotenone
Familiarity information: WILD SWEET PEA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Perennial subshrub of eastern North America having downy leaves yellowish and rose flowers and; source of rotenone
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
catgut; goat's rue; Tephrosia virginiana; wild sweet pea
Hypernyms ("wild sweet pea" is a kind of...):
hoary pea (a plant of the genus Tephrosia having pinnate leaves and white or purplish flowers and flat hairy pods)
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