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HORSE BEAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A bean plant cultivated for use animal fodder
Synonyms:
broad bean; horse bean
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("horse 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 ("horse 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)