common pea

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common pea - plant producing peas usually eaten fresh rather than dried

garden pea plant, Pisum sativum, garden pea

genus Pisum, Pisum - small genus of variable annual Eurasian vines: peas

pea plant, pea - a leguminous plant of the genus Pisum with small white flowers and long green pods containing edible green seeds

garden pea - the flattened to cylindric inflated multi-seeded fruit of the common pea plant

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Snow peas were cultivated as early as 1597 in Holland and are now the most common pea eaten in China.

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A male calico so rare that most veterinarians have never seen one--"Cats are Not Peas: A Calico History of Genetics" is an examination of the strange and off biology of the feline species which work apparently quite a bit differently than that of the common pea. In a second edition, the first published sixteen years ago, is newly enhanced with a lengthy addendum covering all the new discoveries and advances in the study of feline genetics and so much more.