pea

  • 21pea */ — UK [piː] / US [pɪ] noun [countable] Word forms pea : singular pea plural peas a) a very small round green vegetable that grows in a long narrow pod b) a climbing plant whose seeds are peas • like two peas in a pod See: split pea, sweet pea …

    English dictionary

  • 22pea — ► sustantivo femenino vulgar Borrachera, embriaguez: ■ con esta pea no puedes conducir. * * * pea (de «peer»; vulg.) f. Borrachera. * * * pea. (De peer). f …

    Enciclopedia Universal

  • 23pea — [17] Pea is the mirror image of dice. Dice started off as the plural of die, but has become a singular form; the singular form of pea was originally pease, but it came to be regarded as plural, and so a new singular pea was created. The word was… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 24pea — noun (C) 1 a large round green seed that is cooked and eaten as a vegetable: frozen peas | garden peas | pea soup | shell peas (=take them out of their seed container) 2 a plant that produces long green pods that contain these seeds 3 like two… …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 25pea — n 1. chickpea, garbanzo, black eyed pea, cow pea, snow pea. 2. bead, globule, spherule, spheroid, ball, shot, marble, pearl; pill, tablet, pellet, capsule, oval; drop, dew drop, tear …

    A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

  • 26pea — [[t]pi[/t]] n. pl. peas, adj. 1) pln the round edible seed of a widely cultivated plant, Pisum sativum, of the legume family 2) pln the plant itself 3) pln the green, somewhat inflated pod of this plant 4) pln any of various related or similar… …

    From formal English to slang

  • 27pea — I. /pi / (say pee) noun (plural peas or, Archaic, pease) 1. the small, round, highly nutritious seed of Pisum sativum, widely used as a vegetable. 2. the plant itself, a hardy plant in wide cultivation. 3. the unopened pod of this plant. 4. any… …

  • 28pea — sėjamasis žirnis statusas T sritis vardynas apibrėžtis Pupinių šeimos daržovinis, maistinis, vaistinis kultūrinis augalas (Pisum sativum), paplitęs šiaurės Afrikoje, pietvakarių Azijoje, pietų Europoje, kitur – auginamas. atitikmenys: lot. Pisum… …

    Lithuanian dictionary (lietuvių žodynas)

  • 29pea — [17] Pea is the mirror image of dice. Dice started off as the plural of die, but has become a singular form; the singular form of pea was originally pease, but it came to be regarded as plural, and so a new singular pea was created. The word was… …

    Word origins

  • 30PEA-15 — (= phosphoprotein enriched in astrocytes, 15 kD) PEA 15 is an acidic serine phosphorylated protein highly expressed in the CNS, where it can play a protective role against cytokine induced apoptosis. PEA 15 is phosphorylated in astrocytes by… …

    Dictionary of molecular biology