| 单词 | seven-year bean |
| 释义 | > as lemmasseven-year bean seven-year bean n. (also †seven-years bean) any of various cultivated leguminous plants from which beans can be harvested in several successive years without resowing: spec. †(a) Caribbean the pigeon pea, Cajanus cajan (obsolete) (cf. seven-year pea n.); (b) (chiefly Australian) the scarlet runner bean, Phaseolus coccineus. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > pulse > [noun] > bean > other beans bean1548 black bean1569 calavance1620 red bean1658 seven-year bean1666 lablab1670 Cajan1693 dal1698 adzuki1727 tick-bean1744 tick1765 toker1786 mash1801 Congo pea1812 stick bean1823 moog1840 moth1840 Lima1856 feijão1857 asparagus pea1859 mung1866 wall1884 Rangoon bean1903 1666 J. Davies tr. C. de Rochefort Hist. Caribby-Islands 64 Those called the Seven-years Beans, because the same stalk bears seven years one after another. 1881 Australasian (Melbourne) 3 Sept. 312/2 Couch grass, melons, seven-year bean and plantain have been tried, and all grow splendidly. 1950 Mail Sunday Mag. (Adelaide) 18 Feb. 17/4 The seven-year bean seeds are generally planted in late spring. 2012 Weekly Times (Australia) (Nexis) 24 Oct. 74 Scarlet runner or seven year beans are great in colder climates. They die down over the cooler months to an underground tuber, then shoot up once the weather warms up in spring. < as lemmas |
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