garden pea

English

Noun

garden pea (plural garden peas)

  1. (usually 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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