pea

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any of certain plants of the family Fabaceae: Pisum sativum and others.
  2. A ball travelling at high velocity.
  3. a peafowl archaic,rare
  4. Alternative form of peak. alt-of,alternative
  5. Any of certain plants of the family Fabaceae: Pisum sativum and others.; A plant, Pisum sativum, member of the legume (Fabaceae) family. especially
    — Below, long rows of peas put forth their white-winged flowers, tempting the small butterflies to flutter round their inanimate likenesses;...
  6. Any of the small numbered balls used in a pea shake game. US
  7. The edible seed of Pisum sativum.
  8. Ellipsis of green pea galaxy. abbreviation,alt-of,ellipsis
  9. The edible seed of various other pea plants.
  10. Any of several varieties of bean.
    — peas and rice
  11. Money. Multicultural-London-English,in-plural
    — Man's making bare peas.

词形变化

peas plural pease archaic,plural pease alternative,archaic peas plural peas plural peas plural

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Ancient Greek πίσον (píson)bor.
Latin pisum
Late Latin pisader.
Old English pise
Middle English pese
English peasebf.
English pea
Back-formation from pease, an original singular reinterpreted as a plural. Further from Middle English pese (“a pea”), from Old English pise, from Latin pisa, pisum, from Ancient Greek πίσον (píson).
词源 2
From having the appearance of a pea (see English etymology 1), the edible seed of Pisum sativum, the pea plant.
词源 3
From Middle English pe, po, poue, pa, paue, from Old English pēa, pāwa (“peacock”) (compare Old English pāwe (“peahen”)) and Old Norse pái (“peacock”), both from Proto-Germanic *pāwô (“peacock”), from Latin pāvō (“peacock”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Pau, West Frisian pau, Dutch pauw, German Pfau. Doublet of Pavo.
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