adzuki bean

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsadsuki beanVigna angularisPhaseolus angularis

   Broaderlegume

   Part ofVigna

Questions about adzuki bean

What does adzuki bean mean?

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

What is another word for adzuki bean?

Close synonyms include adsuki 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 adzuki bean a common word?

adzuki 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.