goa bean

Questions about goa bean

What does goa bean mean?

goa bean means "a tuberous twining annual vine bearing clusters of purplish flowers and pods with four jagged wings; Old World tropics". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for goa bean?

Close synonyms include winged bean, winged pea, goa bean vine, Manila bean, Psophocarpus tetragonolobus. 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 goa bean a common word?

goa 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.