Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One of several varieties of pea that produces large seeds. Also called marrow pea.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A kind of tall-growing, wrinkled pea.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A rich but late variety of pea.
Examples
“Not bad, and at £4.30 I could forgive the marrowfat peas.”
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“We have a side dish of buttery peas with pancetta, and they are not the fresh kind but something verging on marrowfat, which makes this feel like an Italian dish by way of Salford.”
“Mary was at the top of a ladder stacking packets of marrowfat peas on the higher shelves.”
“Yes Harvest Festival season is here and it's time for schoolchildren to give an old person a giant marrow and some tins of marrowfat processed peas and out of date London Grill and baked beans.”
“But at present Dan Tugwell was as tender to the core as a marrowfat dallying till its young duck should be ready; because Dan was podding into his first love.”
“The day before yesterday Jan ate carrots with green peas, yesterday he had the leftovers, today she's cooking marrowfat peas, and tomorrow she's plan - ning to mash the remaining carrots with potatoes.”
“Not only can we commence the season with a dish possessing the true marrowfat flavour, but in the new maincrop varieties dwarf robust growth is combined with free-bearing qualities, while the size of both Peas and pods has been increased without in the smallest degree sacrificing flavour.”
The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition
“As everybody wants an early dish of Peas, sow one of the forward marrowfat varieties in pots, or on strips of turf laid grass-side downwards in boxes having movable bottoms that can be withdrawn by a dexterous hand when the transfer is made from frames to the open ground.”
The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition
“On fairly warm soils the first opportunity should be taken to sow one of the early dwarf marrowfat varieties in the open ground.”
The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition
“Numerous varieties of both fresh and dried shell beans are in use, including navy, marrowfat, pinto, and Lima beans.”
Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 2: Milk, Butter and Cheese; Eggs; Vegetables
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘marrowfat’.
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nouns
enfleurage, fautor, mafia, haslet, chopine, sea-gate, cantillation, formicary, go-devil, Gongorism, mamzer, mazarine and 147 more...
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Butter Beans and Snaps
List of as many pea and bean varieties as I can cook up - mostly common names.
field peas, butter beans, snap peas, lima beans, crowder peas, haricots verts, string bean, green bean, pole bean, navy bean, white acre peas, zipper pea and 186 more...
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Random
These are just some random words that I might find a list for someday.
troglodytism, chinkle, vasculum, sabz, cucullus, tricornigerous, cuboctahedron, eruca, gamp, pilum, taha, angelhood and 244 more...
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denni's list
comfortable, odd, delightful, even obscure, words
to use and rejoice in.grockle, pinguid, pother, virga, tiddy oggy, booksy, boondoggle, wayzgoose, apologue, clough, cloze, marrowfat and 5 more...
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new words ! ! !
parky, pinnacle, marrowfat, sombrous, photophone, misandrist, misogynist, hypostyle, cordial, tulipomania, cornucopia, qualms and 36 more...
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denni (n.) a pea of a large variety which is processed and sold in cans. (Oxford Dictionary of English)
Jul 25, 2008