FRESH BEAN

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Beans eaten before they are ripe as opposed to dried

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("fresh bean" is a kind of...):

common bean (any of numerous beans eaten either fresh or dried)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fresh bean"):

green bean (immature bean pod eaten as a vegetable)

wax bean; yellow bean (snap beans with yellow pods)

shell bean (unripe beans removed from the pod before cooking)

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