phaseolus vulgaris

Questions about phaseolus vulgaris

What does phaseolus vulgaris mean?

phaseolus vulgaris means "the common annual twining or bushy bean plant grown for its edible seeds or pods".

What is another word for phaseolus vulgaris?

Close synonyms include common bean, common bean plant. 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 phaseolus vulgaris a common word?

phaseolus vulgaris 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.