ground-pea
[ground n. 18 c.]
= ground-nut 1 and 2.
| 1769 [see ground-nut 2]. 1796 B. Hawkins Let. 2 Dec. in Georgia Hist. Soc. Coll. (1916) IX. 21 They made beans, ground peas, cymblins. 1823 E. James Long's Exped. Rocky Mts. I. 200 The squaws..are often necessitated to dig the pomme de terre..and to scratch the groundpea. 1854 Florida Plant. Rec. 115, I have picked 80 bushels of ground peas. 1893 Jrnl. Amer. Folklore V. 95 Arachis hypogæa, ground-peas. Ibid. VI. 140 Apios tuberosa, ground-pea. 1946 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. v. 24 Ground peas, peanuts. |