Definition of European bean

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


Lexicographical Neighbors of European Bean

European Economic Community
European Law Enforcement Organisation
European Parliament
European Parliaments
European Portuguese
European Recovery Program
European Russia
European Shorthair
European Shorthairs
European Stability Mechanism
European Union
European ash
European badger
European badgers
European barberry
European bean (current term)
European beaver
European beavers
European beech
European beggar-ticks
European bird cherry
European bison
European bisons
European bittern
European black alder
European black currant
European black grouse
European blackbird
European blueberry
European bog asphodel

Literary usage of European bean

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Insect Pests of Farm, Garden and Orchard by Ezra Dwight Sanderson (1921)
"The European bean- weevil* was imported into New York and New Jersey in 1870. at the Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893, and has been observed at ..."

2. Publications of the Rhode Island Historical Society by Rhode Island Historical Society (1894)
"... denies that the native bean twined high — and declares that Eliot, in this case, used a word of his own coinage, and was describing the European bean. ..."

3. Psyche by Cambridge Entomological Club (1893)
"... seeds and found that the beetles oviposited readily upon the seeds of our common pea, on corn, on buckwheat, on the large European bean, on lentils, ..."

4. Practical Agriculture: A Brief Treatise on Agriculture, Horticulture by John Walter Wilkinson (1909)
"The native European bean does not do well in the United States. Some of the leading varieties of our beans are the black wax, the golden wax, ..."

5. Practical Agriculture: A Brief Treatise on Agriculture, Horticulture by John Walter Wilkinson (1909)
"The native European bean does not do well in the United States. Some of the leading varieties of our beans are the black wax, the golden wax, ..."

6. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Arranged in by Robert Kerr (1824)
"... European bean or Phase- olus vulgaris, one of them having a straight stalk, and all the rest climbers 5. Chili is considered by naturalists as the ..."

7. Adventure Guide to Thailand by Christopher Evans, Lindsey Evans (2006)
"They advertise European bean coffee but where that is grown we do not know. And don't forget while you're dining or checking ..."

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