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BROAD BEAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Shell beans cooked as lima beans
Synonyms:
broad bean; fava bean
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("broad bean" is a kind of...):
shell bean (unripe beans removed from the pod before cooking)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A bean plant cultivated for use animal fodder
Synonyms:
broad bean; horse bean
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("broad bean" is a kind of...):
fodder (coarse food (especially for livestock) composed of entire plants or the leaves and stalks of a cereal crop)
Holonyms ("broad bean" is a part of...):
broad-bean; broad-bean plant; broad bean; English bean; European bean; field bean; Vicia faba (Old World upright plant grown especially for its large flat edible seeds but also as fodder)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Old World upright plant grown especially for its large flat edible seeds but also as fodder
Synonyms:
broad-bean; broad-bean plant; broad bean; English bean; European bean; field bean; Vicia faba
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("broad bean" is a kind of...):
shell bean; shell bean plant (a bean plant grown primarily for its edible seed rather than its pod)
Meronyms (parts of "broad bean"):
broad bean; horse bean (a bean plant cultivated for use animal fodder)
broad bean; fava bean; horsebean (seed of the broad-bean plant)
Holonyms ("broad bean" is a member of...):
genus Vicia; Vicia (widely distributed genus of annual or perennial and often climbing herbs)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Seed of the broad-bean plant
Synonyms:
broad bean; fava bean; horsebean
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("broad bean" is a kind of...):
bean (any of various seeds or fruits that are beans or resemble beans)
Holonyms ("broad bean" is a part of...):
broad-bean; broad-bean plant; broad bean; English bean; European bean; field bean; Vicia faba (Old World upright plant grown especially for its large flat edible seeds but also as fodder)
