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horse bean

noun



horse bean

noun

  1. another name for broad bean
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of horse bean1

First recorded in 1675–85
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Example Sentences

They were about the size of a horse-bean, and remarkably lively after their aerial but wingless flight.

I've never seed such splendid large knobs of fat before in the days of my life—they never used to be bigger then a horse-bean.

Toker's bean, for instance, is twice-and-a-half as long and broad as the horse-bean, and is much thinner and of a different shape.

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