Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Any climbing pea-plant, generally the common pea.
- noun Specifically— A plant of the genus Amphicarpæa. See
hog-peanut . - noun Vicia Americana, a common species throughout the United States, with from four to eight pairs of leaflets, and purplish flowers a few in a cluster.
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Examples
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Melvin was a sometime mechanic, and he and Karen drove pea-vine trucks in season.
Every Breath You Take Ann Rule 2000
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The forests were filled with a luxuriant undergrowth, thickly interspersed with the cane, and the whole closely interlaced with the wild pea-vine.
Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers Benj. N. Martin
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When he found that he could not get back to the sky, he wandered off and finally came to where there were living the children of the three men who last dropped from the pea-vine.
A Treasury of Eskimo Tales Clara Kern Bayliss
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_Mammoth Red Clover_, also called sapling clover and pea-vine clover, closely resembles the red clover, but is ranker in growth and matures two or three weeks later.
The First Book of Farming Charles Landon Goodrich
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Raven went back to the pea-vine and there he found that three other men had just fallen from the pod out of which the first one had dropped.
A Treasury of Eskimo Tales Clara Kern Bayliss
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No, Toby, old man, there's no time for you to be listening and enjoying yourself, nor for nibbling pea-vine, either.
Round Anvil Rock A Romance Nancy Huston Banks
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The pea-vine, unable to stand erect of itself, has tendrils with which to cling to a supporter; but the bean-stalk, self-sustained, has nothing of the kind.
The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, April, 1880 Various
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The red man of the forest and the pioneer white man that came here in advance of our _scratching plow_, tell us they found the wild oat and native grasses waving thick, as high as a man's head, and so entwined with the wild pea-vine as to make it difficult to ride among it, all over this country.
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In the time before there were any people on earth, a large pea-vine was growing on the beach, and in the pod of this pea the first man lay coiled up for four days.
A Treasury of Eskimo Tales Clara Kern Bayliss
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Those who have had such experience with saving pea-vine hay know that there are two danger points -- under-drying, which causes moulding and rotting when stored; over-drying, which causes all the leaves to drop off in handling so that there is nothing but a pile of stems when the storage place is reached.
From Captivity to Fame or The Life of George Washington Carver Raleigh Howard Merritt 1929
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