snap pea
noun
: a cultivated pea that has edible usually round pods easily snapped like beans and that is classified with the snow pea as a variety (Pisum sativum var. macrocarpon)
called also sugar snap pea
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Students learn to look forward to the moment when strawberries are at their sweetest, or the time in late spring when snap peas finally arrive at the table.
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Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
Feel free to load up the pan with sliced bell peppers, mushrooms, carrots, celery, asparagus and snap peas.
—Robin Miller, AZCentral.com, 9 Oct. 2025
Picking up boxes of vegetables at Waldingfield Farm, where both my kids would later harvest Sun Gold tomatoes and snap peas for their first summer jobs.
—Marcia Desanctis, Travel + Leisure, 15 Sep. 2025
My neighbor’s Tuscan salad had loads of vegetables in it — fennel, cucumber, radish, snap peas, sweet peppers and green olives.
—Jess Fleming, Twin Cities, 14 Aug. 2025
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Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
Feel free to load up the pan with sliced bell peppers, mushrooms, carrots, celery, asparagus and snap peas.
—Robin Miller, AZCentral.com, 9 Oct. 2025
Picking up boxes of vegetables at Waldingfield Farm, where both my kids would later harvest Sun Gold tomatoes and snap peas for their first summer jobs.
—Marcia Desanctis, Travel + Leisure, 15 Sep. 2025
My neighbor’s Tuscan salad had loads of vegetables in it — fennel, cucumber, radish, snap peas, sweet peppers and green olives.
—Jess Fleming, Twin Cities, 14 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for snap pea
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“Snap pea.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/snap%20pea. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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