pea
IPA: pˈi
noun
- A plant, Pisum sativum, member of the legume (Fabaceae) family.
- Any plant of the family Fabaceae.
- (cooking) The edible seed of Pisum sativum; the green pea.
- (cooking) The edible seed of various other pea plants.
- (Jamaica) Any of several varieties of bean.
- (MLE, in the plural) Money.
- (baseball) A ball travelling at high velocity.
- (US, Indiana, gambling) Any of the small numbered balls used in a pea shake game.
- (rare, archaic) a peafowl
- A surname.
- (astronomy) Ellipsis of green pea galaxy. [(astronomy) A type of galaxy, found in the local universe, that are active, undergoing high rates of star formation, which provides a green tinge, and are compact, visually appearing akin to peas. These active galaxies have strong oxygen emission lines and no active galactic nucleus (“AGN”), similar to small galaxies in the distant early universe, but unlike those in the nearby contemporary universe.]
- (nautical) Alternative form of peak [A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap.]
- (biochemistry) Initialism of palmitoylethanolamide. [(biochemistry) An endogenous fatty acid amide, belonging to the class of nuclear factor agonists, with anti-inflammatory, antinociceptive, neuroprotective and anticonvulsant properties.]
- (pathology) Initialism of pulseless electrical activity. [(pathology) A medical condition in which the heart's electrical activity is present on an electrocardiogram but doesn't result in a pulse.]
- (ecology) Initialism of preliminary ecological appraisal.
- (linguistics) Initialism of Proto-Eastern Algonquian, the proto-language of the Eastern Algonquian languages.
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Examples of "pea" in Sentences
- He cooked zesty buttered peas.
- The beads were the size of peas.
- One seedpod contains two or three peas.
- The pea crab lives in the mantle cavity of these hosts.
- My sweet little pea is now 7 months old and very alive.
- Not only the color, but the shape of the pea is different.
- When the water is heated up the peas float to the surface.
- Mom has made us sausages with mashed potatoes and mushy peas.
- It can be jarring in pea soup to have a jolt of capsiacin heat.
- The example of the pea being shot up into the air is ballistics.
- Honeydew sugars and osmoregulation in the pea aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum.
- Everybody exclaimed over this: "Surely there was no danger in pea-nuts!"
- In the USA, they are commonly known as the pea clams and the fingernail clams.
- In 1965, fifty companies embarked, in pea soup secrecy, upon a historic search for gas under the North Sea.
- We have to go back to the voters and convince them, ‘you still can’t sleep because the goddamn pea is killing you.’
- I like them in pea soup – they are sweet, but more complexly flavored than carrots, which adds another level of flavor to the entire dish.
- Any Aussie pie of your choice, covered in pea soup made by Madeleine the Crepe Lady (a little old French lady who makes crepes in the same Internet Cafe).
- Among the roots, it mentions _Openauk_, which must have been what we call the pea-nut, which is now largely cultivated along that coast, and is quite an article of commerce.
- Also, some stores sell a small grey seed, a bit smaller than a pea, that is a brilliant yellow when broken open and can be used the same way since it doesn't seem to have any flavor that I can discern.
- How exciting to be invited to come to the White House, see 'the garden' (new meaning to the term pea-green with envy) as the fabulous first lady drafted us all into the service of our country's children to ensure their healthy future.
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