Definition of Frijole

1. Noun. The common bean plant grown for the beans rather than the pods (especially a variety with large red kidney-shaped beans).

Exact synonyms: Frijol, Kidney Bean
Group relationships: Genus Phaseolus, Phaseolus
Generic synonyms: Common Bean, Common Bean Plant, Phaseolus Vulgaris

2. Noun. Mexican bean; usually dried.
Generic synonyms: Common Bean

Definition of Frijole

1. frijol [n -S] - See also: frijol

Lexicographical Neighbors of Frijole

frigider
frigidest
frigidities
frigidly
frigidness
frigidnesses
frigorie
frigorific
frigorifick
frigorism
frigot
frigots
frigs
frijol
frijole (current term)
frijoles
frijoles refritos
frijolillo
frijolito
frikkadel
frikkadels
frill
frilled
frilled lizard
frilled lizards
frilled shark
friller
frillers
frillier

Literary usage of Frijole

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

1. Songs of the Cowboys by Nathan Howard Thorp (1921)
"Wear old clothes, hunt, fish, en idle; do exactly as you please, Forget set rules en schedules — with a good horse between your knees. frijole ..."

2. Songs of the Cowboys by Nathan Howard Thorp (1921)
"Wear old clothes, hunt, fish, en idle; do exactly as you please, Forget set rules en schedules — with a good horse between your knees. frijole ..."

3. Five Years at Panama: The Trans-isthmian Canal by Wolfred Nelson (1889)
"From Dos Hermanos to frijole, a distance of seventeen and one-third miles from ... From frijole to Mamei, a distance of twenty-four miles from the mouth, ..."

4. The Tourist's California by Ruth Kedzie Wood (1914)
"To properly pronounce names which commonly arise one must know that the Spanish j and x are aspirated (San Joce — San Hosa; frijole ..."

5. A Study of Mexico by David Ames Wells (1887)
"The latter is generally two dollars and a half per month, giving him a ration of corn, frijole, and salt, or four dollars without the ration ; in both cases ..."

6. The Panama Canal: Report of the Hon. John Bigelow, Delegated by the Chamber by John Bigelow (1886)
"... where, for a short distance, it encounters a hill about 170 feet high. From frijole to Mamei, about seven miles, the elevation to be ..."

7. The Birds of North and Middle America: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Higher by Robert Ridgway, Herbert Friedmann (1904)
"... 1864, 98 (frijole Station, Panama RR).—SALVIN and GODMAN, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1880, 63 (Veragua; frijole, Lion Hill, and San Pablo stations). ..."

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