Pea vs Pisatin - What's the difference?
pea | pisatin |
A plant, member of the legume (Fabaceae) family
The edible seed of some of these plants
(baseball) A ball travelling at high velocity
A pterocarpan found in the pea plant Pisum sativum .
*{{quote-news, year=2008, date=April 1, author=Henry Fountain, title=The Little Tingle Tells You It’s Working, work=New York Times
, passage=Hans VanEtten and Evans Kaimoyo of the University of Arizona and colleagues applied a low-level direct current (30 to 100 milliamperes at 8 to 24 volts) to pea plant roots and found that the plants produced levels of pisatin , an antifungal compound, 13 times as high as those of untreated plants. }}
As a noun pisatin is
a pterocarpan found in the pea plant pisum sativum .pea
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(wikipedia pea)Etymology 1
, originally an uncountable noun meaning "peas" that was construed as a plural.Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* pea-brain * pea crab * pea pod * peashooter * peason * like two peas in a pod * pigeon pea * sugar pea * sweet peaDescendants
* Abenaki: * Mohegan-Pequot: * Yurok:Etymology 2
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