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Definition of Hoary pea
1. Noun. A plant of the genus Tephrosia having pinnate leaves and white or purplish flowers and flat hairy pods.
Specialized synonyms: Bastard Indigo, Tephrosia Purpurea, Catgut, Goat's Rue, Tephrosia Virginiana, Wild Sweet Pea
Generic synonyms: Subshrub, Suffrutex
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hoary Pea
Literary usage of Hoary pea
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of the Medical Botany of North America by Laurence Johnson (1884)
"... the symptoms resembling those of belladonna. The flowers, to the author-s own
knowledge, are often eaten with impunity. TEPHROSIA.—hoary pea. ..."
2. Nature's Garden: An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect by Neltje Blanchan (1907)
"As in the case of the lupine, the partridge pea and certain others akin to it,
the leaves of the hoary pea "go to sleep" at night, but after a manner of ..."
3. Nature's Garden: An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect by Neltje Blanchan (1900)
"As in the case of the lupine, the partridge pea and certain others akin to it,
the leaves of the hoary pea "go to sleep" at night, but after a manner of ..."
4. The American Botanist edited by Willard Nelson Clute (1921)
"Its commonest vernacular names are "hoary pea" and "wild sweet pea". Rabbit pea"
and "turkey pea" are other names probably of fanciful origin. ..."
5. King's American Dispensatory by John King, Harvey Wickes Felter, John Uri Lloyd (1900)
"hoary pea. The root of Tephrosia virginiana, ... COMMON NAMES: Turkey pea, Devil's
shoestring, Goat's rue, hoary pea, and Catgut. ..."
6. Flora of the Blue Hills, Middlesex Fells, Stony Brook and Beaver Brook by Walter Deane (1896)
"AI. LUPULINA, L. BLACK MEDICK. Adv. from Eu. in waste places. B, common : — M,
common in fields and by roadsides: — BB*, occurs. TEPHROSIA, Pers. hoary pea. ..."
7. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"... except in a few Australian species, for their peculiar veins, not netted or
branching, but extending parallel to each other obliquely from the hoary pea ..."
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