adsuki bean

1. 1.

   bushy annual widely grown in China and Japan for the flour made from its seeds

   Synonymsadzuki beanVigna angularisPhaseolus angularis

   Broaderlegume

   Part ofVigna

Questions about adsuki bean

What does adsuki bean mean?

adsuki bean means "bushy annual widely grown in China and Japan for the flour made from its seeds".

What is another word for adsuki bean?

Close synonyms include adzuki bean, Vigna angularis, Phaseolus angularis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is adsuki bean a common word?

adsuki bean is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.