snap bean

noun

tender green beans without strings that easily snap into sections

• Syn: ↑snap

• Hypernyms: ↑green bean

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noun

1. : a bean grown primarily for its whole pods that are usually broken in pieces and cooked as a vegetable while young and tender and before the seeds have become enlarged — see green bean, wax bean; compare shell bean

2. : one of the edible pods of a snap bean

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a crisp bean pod, as a green bean or a wax bean, that is easily broken into pieces for cooking.

[1760-70, Amer.]

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snap bean noun (N American)

A variety of bean with edible pods

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Main Entry: ↑snap

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snap bean,

1. any one of several varieties of the common bean, whose unripe pods are used for food.

2. the pod itself.

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n. a bean of a variety grown for its edible pods

Origin:

late 18th cent.: so named because the pods are broken into pieces to be eaten

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noun, pl ⋯ beans [count]

: any of several types of beans whose long green seed cases are eaten as a vegetable when they are young and tender