garden pea

English

Noun

garden pea (plural garden peas)

  1. (usually in the plural) A variety of pea grown for food.
    • 2001, Jules Janick, Plant Breeding Reviews, volume 21, page 97:
      Contemporary snow pea cultivars have been bred from crosses between snow and garden peas. For example, 'Oregon Sugar Pod' came from a cross of 'Dwarf Gray Sugar' with OSU 102 (a garden pea with typical freezer pea characteristics).
    • 2011, Sheri Castle, The New Southern Garden Cookbook:
      Peas likely came ashore in the New World with the earliest English and French explorers and spread along with the colonies. Thomas Jefferson has a nearly mythical association with garden peas.

Usage notes
  • In the UK and Ireland, this term is often used to distinguish them from mushy peas.

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