french bean

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   very small and slender green bean

   Synonymsharicot vertharicots verts

   Broadergreen bean

Questions about french bean

What does french bean mean?

french bean means "very small and slender green bean".

What is another word for french bean?

Close synonyms include haricot vert, haricots verts. 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 french bean a common word?

french 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.