field bean

Questions about field bean

What is another word for field bean?

It depends which field bean you mean. In the sense “Old World upright plant grown especially for its large flat edible seeds but also as fodder”, the synonyms are broad bean, broad-bean, broad-bean plant, English bean, European bean, Vicia faba. Across all 1 sense there are 6 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of field bean?

WordNet records no antonym for field bean. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for field bean come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of field bean

• Full entry for field beanAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for field beanWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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