green bean
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1.0
- noun
- /ɡrin bin/
- Indian
:
frijol mungo
- Kwan reaches for a green bean with her chopsticks.
- green beans casserole
- green bean seeds
Examples
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So bring that kale salad or your winning "healthified" green bean casserole to the next company potluck or family meal.
Blog text (33) -
- A green bean casserole.
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Cut green beans for thirty-seven cents.
Fiction book (1996) -
She looked around and took a raw green bean from the bowl by the stove.
Fiction book (1995) -
There was a bowl of raw green beans on the counter, and three tomatoes on the windowsill.
Fiction book (1995) -
That's a pickled green bean and a pickled kimchi.
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Meanwhile, Grusak is also collaborating with University of Wisconsin researchers on a breeding project that could ultimately produce a high-calcium garden variety green bean.
Academic text (1994) -
Over fried chicken, green bean almondine, and black-eyed peas, Helen Shayowitz leaned forward to share her news with her two sons, their wives, and her grandchildren.
Fiction book (2000) -
Brian could hardly believe what was happening, especially when Sherman stepped up and offered his mother the red tomato and the green bean, even though he'd taken a bite of each—as if they were precious gifts.
Fiction book (2000) -
She made a delicious stir-fry with fresh green beans and carrots.
Synonyms
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An edible seed or pod from plants like peas and lentils used for food
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7.3
A small green seed used for food in Asian cooking
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3.4
A small green bean from Asia that people cook or grow into sprouts
A seed from the mung bean plant used for food
A small green seed from the mung bean plant that is eaten or sprouted
A small green bean from the mung plant that people eat
A small edible bean used in Asian cooking
A small green seed used in Filipino and other Asian cooking
A seed from plants like peas or lentils that you can eat
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Morphology
The meaning 'an immature green bean pod / vegetable' is directly and compositionally derived from combining 'green' (not ripe/not fully developed) with 'bean' (edible pod/seed). This adjective+noun pattern is literal and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Green bean comes from the small, round green bean seeds that people cook in many Asian dishes as sweets, soups, or sprouts. So, this sense means the edible 'seed' used in food.