pea

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Any of several varieties of bean.

   peas and rice

2. 2
   noun

   Money.

   Man's making bare peas.

3. 3
   noun

   seed of a pea plant used for food

4. 4
   noun

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

5. 5
   noun

   the fruit or seed of a pea plant

6. 6
   noun

   Any of certain plants of the family Fabaceae: Pisum sativum and others.

7. 7
   noun

   The edible seed of Pisum sativum.

8. 8
   noun

   The edible seed of various other pea plants.

Etymology

From Middle English pe, po, poue, pa, paue, from Old English pēa, pāwa (“peacock”) (compare Old English pāwe (“peahen”)) and Old Norse pái (“peacock”), both from Proto-Germanic *pāwô (“peacock”), from Latin pāvō (“peacock”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Pau, West Frisian pau, Dutch pauw, German Pfau. Doublet of Pavo.