From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishpeapea /piː/ ●●● S3 noun [countable] 1 DFFa round green seed that is cooked and eaten as a vegetable, or the plant on which these seeds grow roast chicken with peas and carrots2 → like two peas in a pod
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pea• pea soup• Use one eighth of a walnut - about the size of a pea.• In a saute pan, heat oil and saute ham with drained peas for 3 to 5 minutes.• Divide black-eyed pea mixture between 2 serving plates.• At Lowestoft a Birds Eye freezing factory processes fish, peas and beans.• frozen peas• She gave Denver a half peck of peas to sort and soak overnight.• Heat very briefly so that the snow peas just turn bright green.• There does indeed seem to be little advantage in damaging the coat of modern varieties of sweet peas.• Plant the peas, zigzag fashion, 2in apart.Origin pea (1600-1700) pease “pea” ((11-19 centuries)) (mistaken as plural), from Latin pisa, plural of pisum, from Greek pison 