egyptian bean

Questions about egyptian bean

What does egyptian bean mean?

egyptian bean means "perennial twining vine of Old World tropics having trifoliate leaves and racemes of fragrant purple pea-like flowers followed by maroon pods of edible seeds; grown as an ornamental and as a vegetable on the Indian subcontinent; sometimes placed in genus Dolichos".

What is another word for egyptian bean?

Close synonyms include hyacinth bean, bonavist, Indian bean, Lablab purpureus, Dolichos lablab. 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 egyptian bean a common word?

egyptian 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.