Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word PEA

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Definitions of PEA

1. Any plant of the family Fabaceae.
2. A plant, Pisum sativum, member of the legume (Fabaceae) family.
3. (culinary) The edible seed of Pisum sativum; the green pea.
4. (culinary) The edible seed of various other pea plants.
5. (Jamaica) Any of several varieties of bean.
6. (MLE, in the plural) Money.
7. (baseball) A ball travelling at high velocity.
8. (US, Indiana, gambling) Any of the small numbered balls used in a pea shake game.
9. (galaxy) Ellipsis of green pea galaxy.
10. (rare, archaic) a peafowl
11. (nautical) Alternative form of peak.
12. (biochemistry) Initialism of palmitoylethanolamide.
13. (pathology) Initialism of pulseless electrical activity of the heart.
14. (ecology) Initialism of preliminary ecological appraisal.
15. (linguistics) Initialism of Proto-Eastern Algonquian, the proto-language of the Eastern Algonquian languages.
16. A surname.

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Examples of Using PEA in a Sentence

• Aotus (the name is derived from the Ancient Greek words for "earless" in both cases: the monkey is missing external ears, and the pea is missing earlike bracteoles) may refer to:.
• The visible portion, the glans, of the clitoris is typically roughly the size and shape of a pea and is estimated to have at least 8,000 nerve endings.
• Mendel worked with seven characteristics of pea plants: plant height, pod shape and color, seed shape and color, and flower position and color.
• The word was then intended to refer to what was sometimes known as pea soup fog, a familiar and serious problem in London from the 19th century to the mid-20th century, where it was commonly known as a London particular or London fog.
• The peanut (Arachis hypogaea), also known as the groundnut, goober (US), goober pea, pindar (US) or monkey nut (UK), is a legume crop grown mainly for its edible seeds.
• The chickpea or chick pea (Cicer arietinum) is an annual legume of the family Fabaceae, subfamily Faboideae.
• Pea (pisum in Latin) is a pulse, vegetable or fodder crop, but the word often refers to the seed or sometimes the pod of this flowering plant species.
• The Mimosoideae are a traditional subfamily of trees, herbs, lianas, and shrubs in the pea family (Fabaceae) that mostly grow in tropical and subtropical climates.
• Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875) – "The Snow Queen", "The Little Mermaid", "The Ugly Duckling", "The Emperor's New Clothes", "The Princess and the Pea", "Thumbelina".
• The county contains three protected areas: Logan Cave National Wildlife Refuge, Pea Ridge National Military Park, and Devil's Eyebrow Natural Area, as well as parts of the Ozark National Forest, Hobbs State Park – Conservation Area, and two state wildlife management areas.
• The town was located at the headwaters of the Pea and Choctawhatchee rivers on the historic road from Hobdy's Bridge over the Pea River to Eufaula on the Chattahoochee River.
• Flora consists mostly of mulga bushland and arid shrubland, After good rain the harsh landscape is transformed by the growth of wildflowers including Sturt's desert pea.
• It follows the ridge dividing the water sheds of the Conecuh River to the northwest, and the Yellow River and Pea River to the southeast.
• Though the area did not see any formal action during the Civil War, Union troops camped at McKissick Spring on March 5, 1862, shortly before the Battle of Pea Ridge.
• Small sections of Little Flock are zoned to Bentonville School District and Pea Ridge School District.
• The name Pea Ridge is derived from a combination of the physical location of the original settlement of the town, across the crest of a ridge of the Ozark Mountains, and for the hog peanuts or turkey peas that had been originally cultivated by Native American tribes centuries before European settlement, which later helped to provide basic subsistence once those pioneer settlers arrived.
• It may be most famous for its nickname “Home of Split Pea Soup,” which is a reference to the former Pea Soup Andersen's Restaurant that shut down in 2024.
• The Delaware City Historic District, Chelsea, Eastern Lock of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, Fairview, and Fort Delaware on Pea Patch Island are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
• The current Ohio River backwater called the Gravel Pit was a sand and pea gravel quarry from the 1930s until the construction of the Greenup Lock and Dam in 1962.
• The growth of the town would be interrupted by the Civil War, as a February 1862 skirmish, a predecessor to the much larger Battle of Pea Ridge the next month in Pea Ridge, Arkansas, would result in the destruction of the fledgling town.

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