broad-bean

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

broad-bean - Old World upright plant grown especially for its large flat edible seeds but also as fodderbroad-bean plant, English bean, European bean, field bean, Vicia faba, broad beanhorse bean, broad bean - a bean plant cultivated for use animal foddershell bean, shell bean plant - a bean plant grown primarily for its edible seed rather than its podgenus Vicia, Vicia - widely distributed genus of annual or perennial and often climbing herbsbroad bean, fava bean, horsebean - seed of the broad-bean plant