broad-bean plant

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsbroad beanbroad-beanEnglish beanEuropean beanfield beanVicia faba

   Broadershell bean

   Part ofVicia

   Partsbroad bean

Questions about broad-bean plant

What does broad-bean plant mean?

broad-bean plant means "Old World upright plant grown especially for its large flat edible seeds but also as fodder".

What is another word for broad-bean plant?

Close synonyms include broad bean, broad-bean, English bean, European bean, field bean. 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 broad-bean plant a common word?

broad-bean plant 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.