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garden pea en · NOUN
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(plural-normally) A variety of pea grown for food.
Peas likely came ashore in the New World with the earliest English and French explorers and spread along with the colonies. Thomas Jefferson has a nearly mythical association with garden peas.
2011, Sheri Castle, The New Southern Garden Cookbook:Contemporary snow pea cultivars have been bred from crosses between snow and garden peas. For example, 'Oregon Sugar Pod' came from a cross of 'Dwarf Gray Sugar' with OSU 102 (a garden pea with typical freezer pea characteristics).
2001, Jules Janick, Plant Breeding Reviews, volume 21, page 97:
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