shell bean

noun

1. a bean plant grown primarily for its edible seed rather than its pod

• Syn: ↑shell bean plant

• Hypernyms: ↑bean, ↑bean plant

• Hyponyms:

↑lima bean, ↑lima bean plant, ↑Phaseolus limensis, ↑sieva bean, ↑butter bean, ↑butter-bean plant, ↑Phaseolus lunatus, ↑tepary bean, ↑Phaseolus acutifolius latifolius, ↑broad bean, ↑broad-bean, ↑broad-bean plant, ↑English bean, ↑European bean, ↑field bean, ↑Vicia faba

2. unripe beans removed from the pod before cooking

• Hypernyms: ↑fresh bean

• Hyponyms:

↑lima bean, ↑sieva bean, ↑butter bean, ↑butterbean, ↑civet bean, ↑fava bean, ↑broad bean, ↑green soybean

• Part Holonyms: ↑shell bean plant

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noun

1. : a bean grown primarily for its edible seeds — compare snap bean

2. : the edible seed of any bean and especially of a shell bean

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1. any of various kinds of bean of which the unripe seeds are removed from the pods before cooking.

2. the seed itself.

[1865-70, Amer.]

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shell bean noun (US)

1. A bean removed from, and eaten without, its pod

2. Any of various bean plants suitable for this

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Main Entry: ↑shell

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shell bean,

1. any one of various beans that are shelled before cooking and only the seeds are being eaten; field bean.

2. the plant bearing such beans.