snow pea

a variety of pea with crisp, edible seedpods

See snow pea in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun
  1. A variety of the common pea (Pisum sativum var. macrocarpon) in the pea family, having a soft pod that lacks the fibrous inner lining of the common pea.
  2. The edible young pod of this plant.
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