Meaning of Pea | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Initialism of palmitoylethanolamide.
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
2. Initialism of Portuguese East Africa.
   abbreviation, alt-of, historical, initialism
3. A ball travelling at high velocity.
4. a peafowl
   archaic, rare
5. A surname.
6. Any of certain plants of the family Fabaceae: Pisum sativum and others.
7. Initialism of pulseless electrical activity.
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
8. Initialism of Proto-Eastern Algonquian, the proto-language of the Eastern Algonquian languages.
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
9. Any of the small numbered balls used in a pea shake game.
   US
10. A plant, Pisum sativum, member of the legume (Fabaceae) family.
    especially
11. Initialism of preliminary ecological appraisal.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism
12. Ellipsis of green pea galaxy.
    abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
13. The edible seed of Pisum sativum.
14. The edible seed of various other pea plants.
15. Any of several varieties of bean.
16. Money.
    Multicultural-London-English, in-plural

Equivalents

Examples

“Below, long rows of peas put forth their white-winged flowers, tempting the small butterflies to flutter round their inanimate likenesses;...”

“peas and rice”

“Vigna unguiculata subsp. unguiculata is what most people call black-eyed peas but some people call black-eyed beans.”

“Man's making bare peas.”

“Oh, come on. Help a brother out. People see you coppin', might inspire them. Look, I know you ain't payin' bills right now. Man must have bare peas saved up.”

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