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| Pisum sativum
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A pea ( Pisum sativum) is the small, edible round green seed which grows in a pod on a leguminous vine, hence why it is called a legume. Several other seeds of the family Fabaceae, most of them round, are also called peas.
According to etymologists, the term was taken from Latin and adopted into English as the singular term "pease." as in pease pudding below. However, by analogy with other plurals ending in "-s", speakers began construing "pease" as a plural and constructing the singular form by dropping the "s", giving us the term "pea". This process is known in linguistics as back-formationIn etymology, the process of back-formation is the creation of a neologism by reinterpreting an earlier word as a compound and removing the spuriously supposed affixes. The resulting new word is also called a back-formation''. For example, the suffix holi.
Peas are cooked as a vegetable in many cultures.
Peas grown for the immature peas are called garden peas, shell peas or green peas. They are sold fresh (usually in the pod), or tinned or frozen.
The mature pea, which dries naturally in the field, is known as the marrowfat pea. This name is recorded by the OED as early as 1733Events February 12 English colonist James Oglethorpe founds Savannah, Georgia. May 29 Right of Canadians to keep Indian slaves upheld at Quebec Quebec. July 30 First Freemasons lodge opened in what will become the United States. Births May 4 Jean-Charles. It is grown mainly in Britain, but many are exported to the Far East. One of the oldest export varieties, popular in JapanJapan (, Nippon/Nihon literally "the origin of the sun") is a country in East Asia situated on a chain of islands east of the Asian continent on the western edge of the Pacific Ocean. The largest of these islands are, from north to south, Hokkaido , Honsh for the last hundred years, is called Maro. This has led some people to assume mistakenly that the English name marrowfat is derived from Japanese.
Several varieties of peas are eaten pod and all and are known as mangetout, edible pod peas, snow peas, sugar peas or snap peas. They are especially characteristic of oriental cuisine. The snow peas are eaten before the pod inflates, whereas the snap peas are eaten when the seeds have partly matured and the pod is round.
Field peas, are a cultivar of P. sativum (P. sativum ssp. arvense) that are grown as forageForage is the herbaceous plant material (mainly grasses and legumes) eaten by grazing animals. The major forage types: # Pasture # Range # Hay # Silage Forage can also be the nectar producing plants that are available for nectar gatherers, such as honeybe or for hayAlternate meanings: Hay, New South Wales, Hay-on-Wye Hay is dried grass (and pasture flowers) used to feed domestic animals at places or times where there is not enough (fresh) grass. It is normally produced by cutting the pasture and let the mowing dry i production.
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