sweet pea

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English

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• sweetpea

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Noun

sweet pea (plural sweet peas)

1. A flowering plant, Lathyrus odoratus, grown for its bright colours and sweet fragrance.
   • 1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter IX, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 162:

     No one had such pinks as he had; his sweet-william was unrivaled,—he had only half a dozen geraniums, but then they were such geraniums,—the cottage, once an unsightly little mass of lath and plaster, was now besprinkled with roses; and then, his sweet peas were in blossom, and, fortunately for him who had not much to do, they required a great deal of sticking and tying.

2. (colloquial) A term of endearment for something sweet or lovely; a child or an intimate partner, for example.

Translations

flowering plant

• Afrikaans: pronk-ertjie
• Albanian: grindë f
• Arabic: بَازِلَّاء الزُهُور f (bāzillāʔ az-zuhūr)
• Catalan: pèsol d'olor m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 香こう豌豆えんどう (zh) (xiāngwāndòu)

• Dutch: pronkerwt f, reukerwt f, welriekende lathyrus (nl) m
• Finnish: tuoksuherne (fi)
• French: pois de senteur (fr) m
• German: Duftwicke f, einjährige Duftwicke f, Edelwicke f, duftende Platterbse f
• Hungarian: szagos bükköny
• Italian: pisello odoroso (it) m
• Japanese: スイートピー (suītopī), 香こう豌豆えんどう (kaoriendō), 麝香じゃこう豌豆えんどう (jakōendō), 麝香じゃこう連理れんり草そう (jakōrenrisō)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Norman: pais-flieur f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: erteblomst m

• Occitan: cese d'audor m, pese de sentor m, pese senteire m
• Portuguese: ervilha-de-cheiro f
• Romanian: indrușaim (ro) m
• Russian: души́стый горо́шек m (dušístyj goróšek)
• Spanish: guisante de olor
• Swedish: luktärt c
• Tagalog: gisantes
• Turkish: mürdümük (tr)
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: hương đậu
• Welsh: pysen bêr f

term of endearment — see sweetheart