edible bean

1. 1.

   any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae used for food

   Synonymsbean

   Broaderlegume

   Narrowergoa beanmung beancommon beansoy

   Part ofbean

Questions about edible bean

What does edible bean mean?

edible bean means "any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae used for food".

What is another word for edible bean?

Close synonyms include 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 edible bean a common word?

edible 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.