shell bean

Questions about shell bean

What does shell bean mean?

shell bean means "a bean plant grown primarily for its edible seed rather than its pod". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for shell bean?

Close synonyms include shell 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 shell bean a common word?

shell 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.