manila bean

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   a tuberous twining annual vine bearing clusters of purplish flowers and pods with four jagged wings; Old World tropics

   Synonymswinged beanwinged peagoa beangoa bean vinePsophocarpus tetragonolobus

   Broadervine

   Part ofPsophocarpus

   Partsgoa bean

Questions about manila bean

What does manila bean mean?

manila bean means "a tuberous twining annual vine bearing clusters of purplish flowers and pods with four jagged wings; Old World tropics".

What is another word for manila bean?

Close synonyms include winged bean, winged pea, goa bean, goa bean vine, 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 manila bean a common word?

manila 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.