peaness en · NOUN
Etymology
From pea + -ness.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The property of being a pea comb.
A rose comb is therefore regarded as a single comb in which roseness is present but peaness is absent; and a pea comb is similarly a single one where peaness is present and roseness is absent.
1909, The Eugenics Review, volume 1, page 136: