Usage of "pea family"

Portuguese

Catalan

A large family of trees, shrubs, vines, and herbs bearing bean pods; divided for convenience into the subfamilies Caesalpiniaceae; Mimosaceae; Papilionaceae.

fabaceae

Usage of pea family in English

This, they declared, was a distinctive characteristic of the pea family. 
 Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons 

It does not belong to the solanaceous, but to the papilionaceous or pea family, and its flowers have a delightful fragrance. 
 The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from ... 

It's no wonder this hugely decorative member of the pea family is so fondly known to many gardeners as the queen of the annuals. 
 The Irish Times 

You're right," he said, "it belongs to the Pea Family." 
 The Story of My Boyhood and Youth 

This member of the Pea family is of dwarf, branching growth, thickly clothed with glandular hairs, and bears yellow flowers, succeeded by reddish-purple pods. 
 Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs 

"I should think it ought to belong to the pea family," said Malcolm, "if the flowers are shaped like pea-blossoms." 
 Among the Trees at Elmridge 

Translations for pea family

Portuguese

fabaceae

Catalan

fabàcies

Interface language

Meanings of pea family in English