fava bean

Questions about fava bean

What does fava bean mean?

fava bean means "seed of the broad-bean plant". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for fava bean?

Close synonyms include broad bean, horsebean, broad 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 fava bean a common word?

fava bean is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.