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Definition of Beach pea

1. Noun. Wild pea of seashores of north temperate zone having tough roots and purple flowers and useful as a sand binder.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Beach Pea

Literary usage of Beach pea

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Vines of Northeastern America: Fully Illustrated from Original Sketches by Charles Stedman Newhall (1897)
"31.—American Vetch. (V. Americana, Muhl.) Fig. 32.—Beach-Pea. (L. maritimus, Big.) o. Leaf with stipules, b. Fruit. ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1898)
"IS THE beach pea FOOD OR POISON? CAN any botanical reader of SCIENCE give me any information in regard to the use as food of the seeds of the common Beach ..."

3. Nature's Garden: An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect by Neltje Blanchan (1907)
"Sturdy clumps of the beach pea, growing beyond reach of the tide in the dunes ... Now, in the beach pea, and similarly in the vetches, the style is hairy on ..."

4. Report (1904)
"This littoral flora is similar to that of the Atlantic. Ammophila, Cakile, the beach pea, Triglochin, Potentilla Anserina, L., Juncus Balticus littoralis, ..."

5. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1896)
"... position of the plants show that their seeds lay much nearer the surface of the sand, though subjected to the same conditions as those of the beach pea. ..."

6. Nature's Garden: An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect by Neltje Blanchan (1900)
"Sturdy clumps of the beach pea, growing beyond reach of the tide in the dunes ... Now, in the beach pea, and similarly in the vetches, the style is hairy on ..."

7. The Ecological Relations of the Vegetation on the Sand Dunes of Lake Michigan by Henry Chandler Cowles (1899)
"A species scarcely less important in this connection is the beach pea, Lathyrus maritimus, another marine plant; locally the beach pea is often the dominant ..."

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