Broad Bean (Noun)
Meaning 1
Seed of the broad-bean plant.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- The seeds of the broad-bean are often harvested when they are immature and still tender.
- Sow the broad-bean seed about an inch deep in well-draining soil with full sun.
- The farmer saved some broad-bean seeds from last year's harvest for the upcoming planting season.
- The broad-bean seed has a thick and hard outer shell that is difficult to crack.
- The packet of broad-bean seeds from the store contained instructions on how to properly plant them.
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Meaning 2
A bean plant cultivated for use animal fodder.
Classification
Nouns denoting foods and drinks.
Examples
- The farmer decided to plant a broad bean field as animal fodder for the livestock during the harsh winter months.
- Broad beans are an economical and nutritious source of plant protein in animal feed.
- A mixture of oats and broad beans was grown as a green fodder crop for the cattle.
- Broad beans are widely cultivated in many parts of the world for use as animal feed and hay.
- After harvesting the mature broad beans as animal feed, the farmer would then use the land for another crop rotation.
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Meaning 3
Shell beans cooked as lima beans.
Classification
Nouns denoting foods and drinks.
Examples
- The broad bean is a variety of shell bean that is often cooked similar to lima beans in many parts of the world.
- In some regions, the term lima bean is used interchangeably with broad bean, and they are prepared in the same manner.
- Broad beans are large, flat and commonly used as shell beans which are cooked in ways similar to lima beans.
- In the United States, the difference between the terms broad bean and lima bean often depends on regional dialect or local cuisine preferences for shell beans.
- While they can be cooked in the pod, like green beans, broad beans are also commonly used as shell beans similar to lima beans in cooked dishes.
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Meaning 4
Old World upright plant grown especially for its large flat edible seeds but also as fodder.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- Broad beans can be boiled or steamed, but for added flavor they're best roasted or fried after an initial brief soaking to soften them.
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- The seeds and seed pods of the broad bean are edible, 'with some just preferring stirfried in oils with garlic as simple side-dish only'.
- If one were to write a novel based on the food of Sardinia the one ingredient that could play the title character would without a doubt have to be the broad bean due in particularly high regard locally.
- As the plants grew through winter into spring one could pick them as for an immature tenderness in their pods referred to as 'broad-bean shoots' in Britain, also pick buds for fava greens (similar spinach) before seeds forming then from many harvest Broad beans fully grown seeds inside mature pods that subsequently were put to dry.