NOUN
- a large family of trees, shrubs, vines, and herbs bearing bean pods; divided for convenience into the subfamilies Caesalpiniaceae; Mimosaceae; Papilionaceae
How To Use pea family In A Sentence
- An Asian plant (Vigna radiata ) in the pea family, widely cultivated for its edible seeds and pods. It is the chief source of bean sprouts.
- A further member of this family — the pea family — that has acquired a descriptive name is hare's-foot clover. Times, Sunday Times
- In these hot June days, meadow brown and ringlet butterflies, together with six-spot burnet moths, bumblebees and solitary bees and hoverflies, visit the pea family plants of bird's-foot trefoils, melilots, medicks, vetches and clovers. Country diary: Wenlock Edge
- An Asian plant (Vigna radiata ) in the pea family, widely cultivated for its edible seeds and pods. It is the chief source of bean sprouts.
- To confuse things further, this "bean" is actually scientifically more identified with the PEA Family, and even gives its name to the Pea Family: Fabacae, after this "bean"! Translation for peas & greenbeans (nfm)
- A further member of this family — the pea family — that has acquired a descriptive name is hare's-foot clover. Times, Sunday Times
- String beans belong to the pea family.
- In these hot June days, meadow brown and ringlet butterflies, together with six-spot burnet moths, bumblebees and solitary bees and hoverflies, visit the pea family plants of bird's-foot trefoils, melilots, medicks, vetches and clovers. Country diary: Wenlock Edge
- A further member of this family — the pea family — that has acquired a descriptive name is hare's-foot clover. Times, Sunday Times
- One is a convolvulus called Goat's Foot Morning Glory, the other is Beach Bean, from the pea family and named for its huge woody seeds.
