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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The pea family.
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- noun a large family of trees, shrubs, vines, and herbs bearing bean pods; divided for convenience into the subfamilies Caesalpiniaceae; Mimosaceae; Papilionaceae
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