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field pea
noun
- a variety of the common pea, Pisum sativum arvense, grown for forage and silage.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of field pea1
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Example Sentences
Daniel Tyler brought the California pea which in the early years grew so prolific as the field pea of Utah.
The Canadian Field Pea is sometimes grown in the north as a green manure crop.
The pea of our kitchen gardens is more delicate than the field-pea, and suffers from frost and drought.
The common field pea, or speckled Jack, was one of the mainstays of the Confederacy.
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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