| 单词 | seven-year pea |
| 释义 | > as lemmasseven-year pea seven-year pea n. (also †seven-years pea) chiefly Caribbean the pigeon pea, Cajanus cajan (cf. seven-year bean n.). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > pulses or plants producing pulses > [noun] > pea > other types of pea or pea-plant rouncival1570 garden pea1573 field pease1597 vale-grey1615 rose pea1629 hotspur1663 seven-year pea1672 rathe-ripe1677 huff-codc1680 pigeon pea1683 hog-pease1686 shrub pea1691 field pea1707 pea1707 crown pea1726 maple rouncival1731 marrowfat1731 moratto1731 pig pea1731 sickle-pea1731 hog pea1732 maple pea1732 marrow pea1733 black eye?1740 egg-pea1744 magotty bay bean1789 Prussian1804 maple grey1805 partridge pea1812 Prussian blue1822 scimitar1834 marrow1855 fill-basket1881 string-pea1891 mattar1908 vining pea1959 1672 W. Hughes Amer. Physitian 21 It is called by the English which there inhabits, Seven years Pease, or seven years Vetches; I suppose, because it continueth seven years with once planting. 1814 J. Lunan Hortus Jamaicensis II. 64 It is a perennial plant, bearing when about a year old, and lasts from five to seven years in good soil, whence it has derived the name of seven-year-pea. 2008 B. W. Higman Jamaican Food vi. 255 Although it has literally scores of names, the best known in Jamaica are gungo or gungu pea, Congo pea, Angola pea, pigeon pea, no-eye pea, seven-year pea or (confusingly and apparently exclusive to Jamaica) red pea. < as lemmas |
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