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Word entry · 3 letters

pea

Best crossword clue

"Round green pod seed"

3 letters · collected on this word page

3 lettersPronunciation /piː/Part of speech nounSorted aepStarts with PEnds with A13 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. seed of a pea plant used for food

Word origin

Back-formation from pease, an original singular reinterpreted as a plural. Further from Middle English pese (“a pea”), from Old English pise, from Latin pisa, pisum, from Ancient Greek πίσον (píson).

Used in a sentence

  • Below, long rows of peas put forth their white-winged flowers, tempting the small butterflies to flutter round their inanimate likenesses;...
  • peas and rice
  • Vigna unguiculata subsp. unguiculata is what most people call black-eyed peas but some people call black-eyed beans.

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0

Used as a crossword answer13 curated clues

01Round green pod seed3 letters
02Round green seed3 letters
03Round green vegetable3 letters
04Round pod seed3 letters
05Tiny green round vegetable3 letters
06Tiny green side dish3 letters
07Tiny green vegetable3 letters
08Tiny pod vegetable3 letters
09Tiny round veggie3 letters
10Tiny soup vegetable3 letters
11Vegetable in a pod3 letters
12Pod vegetable3 letters
13Small green vegetable3 letters

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