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Definition of Sugar pea
1. Noun. Variety of pea plant producing peas having thin flat edible pods.
Generic synonyms: Edible-pod Pea, Edible-podded Pea, Pisum Sativum Macrocarpon
2. Noun. Green peas with flat edible pods.
Definition of Sugar pea
1. Noun. (American English) A vegetable pea eaten when immature, mangetout. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sugar Pea
Literary usage of Sugar pea
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. More Pot-pourri from a Surrey Garden by Marie Theresa Villiers Earle (1899)
"MAY The ' French sugar pea'—The ' Westminster Gazette' on Tulips— The legend of
the Crown Imperial—Article on ' Sacred Trees and Flowers'—Peeling of ..."
2. More Pot-pourri from a Surrey Garden by Maria Theresa Earle (1899)
"MAT The ' French sugar pea'—The ' Westminster Gazette' on Tulips— The legend of
the Crown Imperial—Article on ' Sacred Trees and Flowers'—Peeling of ..."
3. Mendel's principles of heredity: A Defence by William Bateson (1902)
"In the following the purple sugar-pea -was father. 3. Laxton's Alpha (green;
wrinkled; coats transparent) fertilised by the purple sugar-pea gave one pod of ..."
4. The Book of the Garden by Charles McIntosh (1855)
"The sugar-pease are much more used on the Continent than with us. The dwarf
crooked sugar-pea (pois sans parchemin ou mange tout—zwerg ..."
5. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication by Charles Darwin (1899)
"The peas of the Tall Sugar-pea, when dry, are pale greenish- brown, thickly
covered with dots of dark purple so minute as to be visible only through a lens, ..."
6. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1886)
"In 1883 we had crosses between the sugar pea and the common pea. The 1884 crop
from the crossed seed had the seed all of the sugar pea type, the pods all of ..."
7. Finger Play Reader by John Walter Davis, Fanny Julien (1909)
"Sugar-pea flew out of bed. " Creep this way," said a little ant. " Thank you,"
said Sugar-pea. Creep that way," said a black beetle. ..."
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