1. Plant producing peas usually eaten fresh rather than dried
   "Garden peas are sweetest when picked young"; "garden pea plants are sweetest when picked young";
   - garden pea plant, common pea, Pisum sativum
    
2. Fresh pea
   "Fresh garden peas have a sweet, delicate flavour";
   - green pea
    
3. The flattened to cylindric inflated multi-seeded fruit of the common pea plant
   "She shelled the garden peas for the side dish"

Derived forms: garden peas

Type of: pea, pea plant

Part of: genus Pisum, Pisum

Encyclopedia: Garden pea