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Definition of French bean
1. Noun. Very small and slender green bean.
Definition of French bean
1. Noun. Haricot bean, kidney bean. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of French Bean
Literary usage of French bean
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Select Extra-tropical Plants Readily Eligible for Industrial Culture Or by Ferdinand von Mueller (1880)
"A twining showy perennial, as useful as the ordinary French bean. Its seeds
usually larger than ... The ordinary Kidney Bean, or French bean, or Haricot. ..."
2. The Book of the Garden by Charles McIntosh (1855)
"Phillips, in " History of Cultivated Vegetables," vol. ip 74, says, " this pulse
is cent-rally but improperly called French bean, for its old French name, ..."
3. The Natural History of the Raw Materials of Commerce: With a Copious List of by John Yeats (1878)
"These legumes comprise, in temperate climates, the Common Pea (Pisum sativum,
L.), the Horse Bean (Faba vulgaris, Moench), the Haricot or French bean ..."
4. Foods and Their Adulteration: Origin, Manufacture, and Composition of Food by Harvey Washington Wiley (1917)
"The kidney bean, or French bean, is a special botanical variety ... This variety
of bean is commonly called a French bean and is a native of South America. ..."
5. The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain), George Long (1835)
"This use of the French bean is not common in England, but when we take into ...
The cultivation of the French bean for the seed is confined m this country ..."
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