field bean

Questions about field bean

What does field bean mean?

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

What is another word for field bean?

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

field 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.