Pea

[piː] or [pi]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) seed of a pea plant used for food.

(noun.) a leguminous plant of the genus Pisum with small white flowers and long green pods containing edible green seeds.

(noun.) the fruit or seed of a pea plant.

校對:伊薇特--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) The sliding weight on a steelyard.

(n.) See Peak, n., 3.

(n.) A plant, and its fruit, of the genus Pisum, of many varieties, much cultivated for food. It has a papilionaceous flower, and the pericarp is a legume, popularly called a pod.

(n.) A name given, especially in the Southern States, to the seed of several leguminous plants (species of Dolichos, Cicer, Abrus, etc.) esp. those having a scar (hilum) of a different color from the rest of the seed.

編輯:谢恩

解釋/意思:

n. a pea-fowl. See Peacock.

n. a climbing annual herb of the bean family whose seeds are nutritious:—pl. Peas a definite number; Pease a quantity not numbered.—ns. Pea′-rī′fle a rifle throwing a very small bullet; Peas′cod Pease′cod the pod or pericarp of the pea; Pea′-shoot′er a small metal tube for blowing peas through; Pea′-stone pisolite.—Egyptian pea the chick-pea; French pea the common garden pea: (pl.) canned peas made up in France; Split peas peas stripped of their membraneous covering in a mill used for making pea-soup or ground into meal; Sweet pea a climbing annual with large and fragrant flowers.

錄入:默多克