field pea

noun

1. a variety of the common pea, Pisum sativum arvense, grown for forage and silage.

Word History and Origins

Origin of field pea¹

First recorded in 1700–10

Example Sentences

Daniel Tyler brought the California pea which in the early years grew so prolific as the field pea of Utah.

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The Canadian Field Pea is sometimes grown in the north as a green manure crop.

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The pea of our kitchen gardens is more delicate than the field-pea, and suffers from frost and drought.

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The common field pea, or speckled Jack, was one of the mainstays of the Confederacy.

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There is a Bunch variety, that does not spread out like a mat over the soil, but grows upright like the common field pea.

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