pea tree

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. Any plant of the leguminous genus Caragana. The Chinese pea-tree is C. Chamlagu, a low or spreading shrub occasionally planted for ornament. The Siberian pea-tree is C. arborescens, a shrub or low tree. Its seeds are fed to flows and are of some culinary use; its leaves yield a blue dye. It is sometimes planted for ornament.
2. n. A shrub of the genus Sesbania. S. (Agati) grandiflora, sometimes specified as West Indian pea-tree, is an East Indian shrub naturalized in Florida and some of the West Indies, having white or red flowers 3 or 4 inches long. Swamp pea-tree, the fuller name of plants of this genus, is applied somewhat particularly to S. occidentale.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. (Bot.) the name of several leguminous shrubs of the genus Caragana, natives of Siberia and China.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. any plant of the genus Caragana having even-pinnate leaves and mostly yellow flowers followed by seeds in a linear pod