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seapea (pluralsea peas)

1. A variety ofpea (Lathyrus japonicus) found on beaches.

   Synonym:beach pea

   • 1758, Thomas Hale,A Compleat Body of Husbandry, page389:

     In a time of great scarcity, the people about our coast found thesea pea in great plenty, and fed upon it.

   • 1963, Anthony Gishford,Tribute to Benjamin Britten on His Fiftieth Birthday, page145:

     Growing between sea and land, so that it might almost be doubted in which element it is denizen, theSea Pea, Lathyrus maritimus, turns up, very local, at various places on our southern and eastern coasts, and is known elsewhere throughout the British Isles only from a few stations in Wales and Ireland.

   • 2011, Joanna Trollope,Daughters-in-Law,→ISBN:

     The shingle itself – so much of it, so clean and smooth – the flatness, throwing the immense blue dome of the sky into even greater relief, the symmetrical mounds of blue-green sea kale, the creeping skeins ofsea pea with its bright-purple flowers, the air, the space, the wind, it was all exhilerating...

   • 2018, Michael Ondaatje,Warlight,→ISBN, pages284–285:

     Mines had been placed along our beaches to proetect the country from invasion, and this resulted in an abundance of rough green carpets ofsea peas with fat sturdy leaves, thanks to the lack of human traffic.

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