green bean

Questions about green bean

What does green bean mean?

green bean means "immature bean pod eaten as a vegetable". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for green bean?

Close synonyms include mung, mung bean, green gram, golden gram, moong. 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 green bean a common word?

green bean is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.