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Noun: wild sweet pea
  1. Perennial subshrub of eastern North America having downy leaves, yellowish and rose flowers; source of rotenone
    "Native Americans used wild sweet pea as a fish poison due to its rotenone content";
    - catgut, goat's rue, Tephrosia virginiana

Derived forms: wild sweet peas

Type of: hoary pea