the rounded green seed of a leguminous climbing plant used as a vegetable
(in pl) the immature pods of the pea with their seeds
a widely cultivated leguminous climbing plant with pods containing round protein-rich green seeds: Pisum sativum
a seed of this plant, used as a vegetable
used in the names of various leguminous plants related to or resembling the pea, e.g. the chick-pea
[back-formation from pease (taken as a pl), from Old English pise via Latin pisum from Greek pison]