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Noun: flat pea
  1. Evergreen shrub having almost heart-shaped foliage and bright yellow pea-like flowers followed by flat pods with flat wings; Australia and Tasmania
    - Platylobium formosum
     
  2. European perennial with mottled flowers of purple and pink; sometimes cultivated for fodder or as green manure
    - narrow-leaved everlasting pea, Lathyrus sylvestris

Derived forms: flat peas

Type of: bush, everlasting pea, shrub

Part of: genus Lathyrus, genus Platylobium, Lathyrus, Platylobium

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