pinto bean

pinto bean
noun
mottled or spotted bean of southwestern United States; usually dried
Hypernyms: ↑common bean

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noun, pl ⋯ beans [count]
: a type of small bean that is grown for food

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ˈpinto bean 7 noun
a type of curved ↑bean with coloured marks on the skin
 
Word Origin:
[pinto bean] early 20th cent.: pinto from pinto, because of the mottled seed of this variety of bean.

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  • pinto bean — noun Date: 1913 a mottled kidney bean that is grown for food and for stock feed …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • pinto bean — a variety of the common bean, Phaseolus vulgaris, having mottled or spotted seeds: grown chiefly in the southern U.S. [1915 20, Amer.] * * * …   Universalium

  • pinto bean — noun One of several varieties of common bean, Phaseolus vulgaris, common in the US and Mexico …   Wiktionary

  • pinto bean — noun (C) a small light brown bean …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

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