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Definition of Edible bean
1. Noun. Any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae used for food.
Generic synonyms: Legume
Specialized synonyms: Goa Bean, Common Bean, Soy, Soya, Soya Bean, Soybean
Group relationships: Bean, Bean Plant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Edible Bean
Literary usage of Edible bean
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Mandarin-Romanized Dictionary of Chinese: Including New Terms and Phrases by Donald MacGillivray (1921)
"sort of edible bean-curd. the skin of beau-curd. bean curd shreds. beans swelled
by soaking. bean cake. to sever China in twain ..."
2. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Plant Industry, Division of Plant Industry, Queensland (1910)
"I would call it an edible bean. We found the bean better than the pod, and it
might be that it would be more palatable to let them get fairly ripe and use ..."
3. Tariff Schedules: Hearings Before the Committee on Ways and Means, House of by Oscar Wilder Underwood (1913)
"The variety of Manchurian-grown soya beans exported and used for crushing is not
an edible bean ..."
4. Origin and History of All the Pharmacopeial Vegetable Drugs, Chemicals and by John Uri Lloyd (1921)
"It is a curious fact that these poisonous seeds are so closely related, botanically,
to the ordinary edible bean of our gardens, that the structural ..."
5. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1904)
"... probably indigenous to South America, but now generally cultivated throughout
the tropics, where its edible bean is used as a vegetable. ..."
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