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sweet pea

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sweet pea
n.
An annual climbing herb (Lathyrus odoratus) of the pea family, native to Italy, cultivated for its variously colored, fragrant flowers.
sweet pea
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) a climbing leguminous plant, Lathyrus odoratus, of S Europe, widely cultivated for its butterfly-shaped fragrant flowers of delicate pastel colours
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Noun1.sweet peasweet pea - climbing garden plant having fragrant pastel-colored flowers
Lathyrus odoratus, sweetpea
genus Lathyrus, Lathyrus - genus of climbing herbs of Old World and temperate North and South America: vetchling; wild pea
vine - a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface
Translations
sweet pea n → pisello odoroso
sweet pea n → pisello odoroso


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Beth had old-fashioned fragrant flowers in her garden, sweet peas and mignonette, larkspur, pinks, pansies, and southernwood, with chickweed for the birds and catnip for the pussies.
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The door was opened into the dim sick- room, and Rebecca stood there with the sunlight behind her, her hands full of sweet peas.
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