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Definition of Sea pea

1. Noun. Wild pea of seashores of north temperate zone having tough roots and purple flowers and useful as a sand binder.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sea Pea

Literary usage of Sea pea

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A History of the Vegetable Kingdom: Embracing the Physiology of Plants, with by William Rhind (1857)
"The peduncles have but one flower each, and the pods and seeds are larger than those of the sea-pea. They are sometimes eaten; but they are coarse and of ..."

2. Wild Life in East Anglia by William Alfred Dutt (1906)
"This may also be said of the rare sea-pea, which occurs on the shingly beach between Aldeburgh and Orford, where it was seen by that eminent botanist, ..."

3. Vegetable Substances Used for the Food of Man by Edwin Lankester (1832)
"The sea-pea is a native of England, which we have noticed in Chapter VIII. The Pisum Americanum is a biennial plant which was found growing at Cape Horn by ..."

4. Vegetable Substances Used for the Food of Man by Edwin Lankester (1832)
"The sea-pea is a native of England, which we have noticed in Chapter VIII. The Pisum Americanum is a biennial plant which was found growing at Cape Horn by ..."

5. Florigraphia Britannica; Or, Engravings and Descriptions of the Flowering by Richard Deakin (1857)
"sea pea. Stem angular; peduncles many flowered ; leaves with four pair of ovate entire ... The sea pea, according to the tale still told in Suffolk, ..."

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