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Pea vs Pisatin - What's the difference?

pea | pisatin |

As a noun pisatin is

a pterocarpan found in the pea plant pisum sativum .

pea

English

(wikipedia pea)

Etymology 1

, originally an uncountable noun meaning "peas" that was construed as a plural.

Noun

(en noun)
  • A plant, member of the legume (Fabaceae) family
  • The edible seed of some of these plants
  • (baseball) A ball travelling at high velocity
  • Derived terms
    * pea-brain * pea crab * pea pod * peashooter * peason * like two peas in a pod * pigeon pea * sugar pea * sweet pea
    Descendants
    * Abenaki: * Mohegan-Pequot: * Yurok:

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (nautical)
  • Anagrams

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    pisatin

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • 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 citation
  • , 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. }}