单词 | refugee bean |
释义 | > as lemmasrefugee bean refugee bean n. chiefly North American (now rare) a cultivated variety of snap or string bean; cf. snap n. 18. ΚΠ 1839 Farmers' Reg. 30 Nov. 644/1 The experiment on which the experiment was tried, was the species of bean called..‘refugee or thousand-to-one bean,’ an excellent species of snap. 1859 Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 1857–8 3 503 The refugee bean (long, dark clouded), has the same characteristics. 1925 D. Monroe & L. M. Stratton Food Buying & our Markets xxi. 199 Refugee beans are specially developed for pods, rather than seeds, and are practically stringless. 1962 Bridgeport (Connecticut) Telegram 6 Dec. 30/2 We live like animals most of the time, eating canned refugee beans when we can get them. < as lemmas |
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