FIELD BEAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does field bean mean? 

• FIELD BEAN (noun)
  The noun FIELD BEAN has 1 sense:

1. Old World upright plant grown especially for its large flat edible seeds but also as fodder

  Familiarity information: FIELD BEAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FIELD BEAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Old World upright plant grown especially for its large flat edible seeds but also as fodder

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

broad-bean; broad-bean plant; broad bean; English bean; European bean; field bean; Vicia faba

Hypernyms ("field 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 "field 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 ("field bean" is a member of...):

genus Vicia; Vicia (widely distributed genus of annual or perennial and often climbing herbs)