| 单词 | green bean |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgreen bean green bean n. any bean plant cultivated for its edible pods rather than for its seeds, esp. the French bean, Phaseolus vulgaris; the pod or beans of such a plant, esp. of the French bean (usually in plural). ΚΠ 1526 Grete Herball ccccxcxiii. sig. Diii For the grene chyches ben lyke in vertue and operacyon to grene benes and the dry to the dry but not in al. 1691 J. Dunton Voy. round World I. 40 My Banquet sometimes was green Beans and Peason, Nuts, Pears, Plumbs, Apples, which were now in season. 1716 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry (ed. 4) II. xiii. i. 129 In gathering green Beans for the Table, it is the best way to cut them off with a Knife. 1842 C. M. Kirkland Forest Life II. xli. 232 ‘Snaps’ are young green beans. 1874 F. Burr Field & Garden Veg. Amer. viii. 408 Early plantings..yielded pods for stringing in about ten weeks, green beans in twelve or thirteen weeks. 1969 S. G. Harrison et al. Oxf. Bk. Food Plants 36/1 The Scarlet Runner is by far the most popular green bean in Britain. 2008 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 1 Jan. d7/3 Repeated exposure to green beans..increased the babies' consumption of this vegetable whether they were breast-fed or formula-fed. < as lemmas |
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