field pea


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

Origin of field pea

1
First recorded in 1700–10

Words Nearby field pea

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How to use field pea in a sentence

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

    The Mormon Battalion | B. H. (Brigham Henry) Roberts
  • The Canadian field pea is sometimes grown in the north as a green manure crop.

    The First Book of Farming | Charles L. Goodrich
  • The pea of our kitchen gardens is more delicate than the field-pea, and suffers from frost and drought.

    Origin of Cultivated Plants | Alphonse De Candolle
  • 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.

    The Peanut Plant | B. W. Jones