turtle bean

1. 1.

   black-seeded bean of South America; usually dried

   Synonymsblack bean

   Broadercommon bean

Questions about turtle bean

What does turtle bean mean?

turtle bean means "black-seeded bean of South America; usually dried".

What is another word for turtle bean?

Close synonyms include black bean. 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 turtle bean a common word?

turtle 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.