Princess' tormentor (3 letters)

{ Answer }

PEA

{ Related Clues }

___-green
A legume
"The Princess on the ___"
Coal size
Green or jacket
Hen or nut
Kind of shooter
Kind of soup
Lump size
Pod denizen
Podded plant
Princess tormentor
Princess's nemesis
Princess's sensibility
Shade of green
Shooter's item
Stew morsel
Thimblerig thing
Certain brain size
Dentiform : tooth :: pisiform : ___
Dimwit's brain size
Shell-game object
Shell game spheroid
Sweet or split chaser
Word with jacket or coal
Vegetable that's hard to eat with a knife

{ Tags }

ammo, brain, coal, game, green, item, jacket, kind, legume, occupant, pea, pod, princess, shade, shell, shooter, size, soup, stew, thimblerig, vegetable

{ Notes }

The answer PEA is seen frequently, appearing about once every 60 puzzles.

{ Definition }

PEA as a noun:

1. seed of a pea plant used for food

2. the fruit or seed of a pea plant

3. (pea, pea plant) = a leguminous plant of the genus Pisum with small white flowers and long green pods containing edible green seeds