sugar snap pea

noun

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Snow peas, sugar snap peas, and English peas are all safe to give your pup in small amounts, according to the American Kennel Club. Kelsey Monstrola, USA Today, 12 July 2025 Instead of sugar snap peas, try snow peas, fresh green beans or haricots verts. The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2025 Goin starts with gold and makes it into something more precious: say, as just one example, a salad of delicate, impossibly sweet lettuces paired with slices of firm, ripe avocado, moons of blood orange, new sugar snap peas and a light, fragrant, perfectly balanced basil-buttermilk dressing. Sam Sifton, New York Times, 18 May 2025 Snap off the stem end of sugar snap peas and pull the string. Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for sugar snap pea

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First Known Use

1979, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of sugar snap pea was in 1979

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“Sugar snap pea.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sugar%20snap%20pea. Accessed 20 Jul. 2025.

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