kidney bean

Questions about kidney bean

What does kidney bean mean?

kidney bean means "the common bean plant grown for the beans rather than the pods (especially a variety with large red kidney-shaped beans)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for kidney bean?

Close synonyms include frijol, frijole. 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 kidney bean a common word?

kidney 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.