Meanings
plural garden peas
- plural normallyA variety of pea grown for food.
Peas likely came ashore in the New World with the earliest English and French explorers and spread along with the colonies. Thomas Jefferson has a nearly mythical association with garden peas.
2011, Sheri Castle, The New Southern Garden Cookbook1 more example
Contemporary snow pea cultivars have been bred from crosses between snow and garden peas. For example, 'Oregon Sugar Pod' came from a cross of 'Dwarf Gray Sugar' with OSU 102 (a garden pea with typical freezer pea characteristics).
2001, Jules Janick, Plant Breeding Reviews, volume 21, page 97
Synonyms & antonyms
nounplant producing peas usually eaten fresh rather than dried
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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garden pea. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/garden%20pea
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