Definition of Pea family

1. Noun. A large family of trees, shrubs, vines, and herbs bearing bean pods; divided for convenience into the subfamilies Caesalpiniaceae; Mimosaceae; Papilionaceae.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Pea Family

pea
pea-chick
pea-green
pea-nut
pea-nuts
pea-shooter
pea-souper
pea-soupers
pea-time
pea-times
pea bean
pea coat
pea coats
pea crab
pea crabs
pea family (current term)
pea flour
pea green
pea jacket
pea patch
pea plant
pea pod
pea pods
pea shooter
pea soup
pea tree
pea weevil
peaberries
peaberry
peabird

Literary usage of Pea family

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

1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1897)
"pea family. Herbs, shrubs, vines or trees, with alternate mostly compound stipulate leaves, and irregular (papilionaceous) perfect or sometimes ..."

2. Forestry in Minnesota by Samuel Bowdlear Green, Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota (1902)
"pea family. Distinguished by the butterfly-shaped (occasionally regular) corolla, usually accompanied by ten monadelphous or ..."

3. The Trees of California by Willis Linn Jepson (1909)
"pea family. Herbs, shrubs, or trees. Leaves alternate, stipulate, compound or rarely simple. Flowers perfect, somewhat perigynous (frequently more on one ..."

4. Forest Flora of Japan: Notes on the Forest Flora of Japan by Charles Sprague Sargent (1894)
"... THE SUMACHS AND THE pea family. IN eastern North America the small family of the Sabiaceae has no representative, although Meliosma, which is mostly a ..."

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