A variable annual leguminous vine that is cultivated for its rounded smooth or wrinkled edible protein-rich seeds, the seed of the pea, and the immature pods with their included seeds. (From Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, 1973)
    

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An 'everlasting' pea plant (Lathyrus latifolius): flowers and leaf. Chromolithograph, c. 1879, after F. Hulme.

A pea plant (Pisum species): twining stem. Pencil drawing.

A cultivar of garden pea (Pisum sativum) and of variegated kale (Brassica oleracea acephala). Chromolithograph, c. 1890.

FREE! : Every time you purchase a 1/2 bottle of Farrow's British made tomato ketchup from May 1st.. to May 31st., 1930, (both dates inclusive) your grocer ... has the manufacturers' authority to give you a large (7 1/2d.) packet of Farrow's garden pea pod peas free / Joseph Farrow & Co. Ltd.

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Staphylococcal food poisoning associated with processed peas / by T.E. Bashford, T.G. Gillespy, A.J.H. Tomlinson.

A cultivar of garden pea (Pisum sativum) and of variegated kale (Brassica oleracea acephala). Chromolithograph, c. 1890.

Versuche über Pflanzenhybriden : zwei Abhandlungen, 1866 und 1870 / von Gregor Mendel. Hrsg. von Erich von Tschermak-Seysenegg.

FREE! : Every time you purchase a 1/2 bottle of Farrow's British made tomato ketchup from May 1st.. to May 31st., 1930, (both dates inclusive) your grocer ... has the manufacturers' authority to give you a large (7 1/2d.) packet of Farrow's garden pea pod peas free / Joseph Farrow & Co. Ltd.

A pea plant (Pisum species): twining stem. Pencil drawing.