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Definition of Purple pea
1. Noun. Any of several attractive evergreen shrubs of Australia grown for their glossy deep green foliage and flowers in rich blues and intense violets.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Purple Pea
Literary usage of Purple pea
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoirs by Horticultural Society of New York (1904)
"The old purple pea of the gardeners was a pure pea and >uld perpetuate itself
truly from seed; but the purple pea produced as a ..."
2. Proceedings, International Conference on Plant Breeding and Hybridization (1904)
"The old purple pea of the gardeners was a pure pea and would perpetuate itself
truly from seed; but the purple pea produced as a heterozygote form will not ..."
3. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication by Charles Darwin (1892)
"... never soon or heard of this variety producing a purple pea ; but in the crossed
pod one of the peas was of a uniform beautiful violet-purple tint, ..."
4. Southern Wild Flowers and Trees: Together with Shrubs, Vines and Various by Alice Lounsberry (1901)
"... more pleasing individual than the preceding species, as its bright yellow and
purple pea-shaped flowers are produced abundantly in terminal racemes. ..."
5. Charles Darwin's Works by Charles Darwin (1896)
"... and Mr. Laxton has never seen or heard of this variety producing a purple pea;
but in the crossed pod one of the peas was of a uniform beautiful ..."
6. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"This species makes a wonderful growth, producing vines 60 to 100 feet in length,
and bearing clusters of large purple pea- ..."
7. The Floricultural Cabinet, and Florists Magazine by Joseph Harrison (1854)
"GREENHOUSE. Indigo/era gracilis; a dwarf bush, foliage pinnate, neat. Flowers of
a rosy-purple, pea formed, in profusion. Indigofera Australia. ..."
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