vicia faba

1. 1.

   Old World upright plant grown especially for its large flat edible seeds but also as fodder

   Synonymsbroad beanbroad-beanbroad-bean plantEnglish beanEuropean beanfield bean

   Broadershell bean

   Part ofVicia

   Partsbroad bean

Questions about vicia faba

What does vicia faba mean?

vicia faba means "Old World upright plant grown especially for its large flat edible seeds but also as fodder".

What is another word for vicia faba?

Close synonyms include broad bean, broad-bean, broad-bean plant, English bean, European 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 vicia faba a common word?

vicia faba 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.