field bean
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English
Noun
field bean (plural field beans)
- (loose) Any of several varieties of bean viewed (in a region's agroeconomy) as a commodity crop grown at scale in farm fields, whether as a food crop, fodder crop, or both; as:
- The hyacinth bean: Lablab purpureus.
- A string bean, especially Phaseolus vulgaris.
- The broad bean: Vicia faba.