HORSE BEAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does horse bean mean? 

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

1. a bean plant cultivated for use animal fodder

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HORSE BEAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A bean plant cultivated for use animal fodder

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

broad bean; horse bean

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)