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Jason Statham (/ ˈ s t eɪ θ əm / STAY-thəm; born 26 July 1967) is an English actor and producer. He is known for portraying tough, gritty, or violent characters in various action thriller films, and has been credited for leading the resurgence of action films during the 2000s and 2010s. [ 1 ]
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Pea (pisum in Latin) is a pulse, vegetable or fodder crop, but the word often refers to the seed or sometimes the pod of this flowering plant species. Carl Linnaeus gave the species the scientific name Pisum sativum in 1753 (meaning cultivated pea).
Snow peas and snap peas both belong to Macrocarpon Group, [3] [4] [1] [5] a cultivar group based on the variety Pisum sativum var. macrocarpum Ser. named in 1825. [6] It was described as having very compressed non-leathery edible pods in the original publication. The scientific name Pisum sativum var. saccharatum Ser. is often
Pea soup or split pea soup is soup made typically from dried peas, such as the split pea.It is, with variations, a part of the cuisine of many cultures. It is most often greyish-green or yellow in color depending on the regional variety of peas used; all are cultivars of Pisum sativum.
The peas are spherical when harvested, with an outer skin. The peas are dried and the dull-coloured outer skin of the pea removed, then split in half by hand or by machine at the natural split in the seed's cotyledon.
Lathyrus / ˈ l æ θ ɪ r ə s / [3] is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family Fabaceae, and contains approximately 160 species.Commonly known as peavines or vetchlings, [1] they are native to temperate areas, with a breakdown of 52 species in Europe, 30 species in North America, 78 in Asia, 24 in tropical East Africa, and 24 in temperate South America. [4]
The family Fabaceae includes a number of plants that are common in agriculture including Glycine max , Phaseolus (beans), Pisum sativum , Cicer arietinum , Vicia faba , Medicago sativa , Arachis hypogaea , Ceratonia siliqua (carob), Trigonella foenum-graecum , and Glycyrrhiza glabra .