Usually means: Small spherical green seed vegetable.
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  1. pea: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pea: Merriam-Webster
  3. pea: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pea: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pea: Collins English Dictionary
  6. pea: Vocabulary.com
  7. PEA, Pea, Pea, Pea, pea: Wordnik
  8. pea: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. PEA, Pea, pea: Wiktionary
  10. pea: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. pea: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. pea: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Pea, pea: Dictionary.com
  14. pea: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. pea: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. PEA, Pe'a, Pea (disambiguation), Pea: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Pea: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. pea: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. pea: Rhymezone
  20. pea: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. pea: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. PEA, pea: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. pea: FreeDictionary.org
  24. pea: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. pea: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. pea: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  2. pea: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  3. PEA: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. PEA: Acronym Finder
  2. PEA: Three Letter Words with definitions
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  4. pea: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pea: HYPP Zoology

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pea, pea: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. pea: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A plant, Pisum sativum, member of the legume (Fabaceae) family.
noun:  Any plant of the family Fabaceae.
noun:  (cooking) The edible seed of Pisum sativum; the green pea.
noun:  (cooking) The edible seed of various other pea plants.
noun:  (Jamaica) Any of several varieties of bean.
noun:  (MLE, in the plural) Money.
noun:  (baseball) A ball travelling at high velocity.
noun:  (US, Indiana, gambling) Any of the small numbered balls used in a pea shake game.
noun:  (rare, archaic) a peafowl
noun:  A surname.
noun:  (astronomy) Ellipsis of green pea galaxy. [(astronomy) A type of galaxy, found in the local universe, that are active, undergoing high rates of star formation, which provides a green tinge, and are compact, visually appearing akin to peas. These active galaxies have strong oxygen emission lines and no active galactic nucleus (“AGN”), similar to small galaxies in the distant early universe, but unlike those in the nearby contemporary universe.]
noun:  (nautical) Alternative form of peak [A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap.]
noun:  (biochemistry) Initialism of palmitoylethanolamide. [(biochemistry) An endogenous fatty acid amide, belonging to the class of nuclear factor agonists, with anti-inflammatory, antinociceptive, neuroprotective and anticonvulsant properties.]
noun:  (pathology) Initialism of pulseless electrical activity. [(pathology) A medical condition in which the heart's electrical activity is present on an electrocardiogram but doesn't result in a pulse.]
noun:  (ecology) Initialism of preliminary ecological appraisal.
noun:  (linguistics) Initialism of Proto-Eastern Algonquian, the proto-language of the Eastern Algonquian languages.

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