green bean
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- noun
- /ɡriːn biːn/
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judía verde
- Then I'm also going to add in the fine green beans with the chicken.
But it tastes like canned green beans, not fresh green beans.
- But it tastes like canned green beans, not fresh green beans.
- Maybe I'm talking about Phaseolis vulgaris, the common French green bean.
- PM snack, grapefruit dinner, green beans, whitefish, that's all I can have today.
- I've made amazing green beans, amazing radishes.
Examples
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So I'm fixing us some green beans like my mother used to make.
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Cameron, you mind passing me the green beans, please?
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I can... I can get my own green beans.
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Can I please just get my own green beans?
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And I made your green beans that you like so much.
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Of course, everybody loves green beans.
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So I got this whole bowl full of fresh, organically grown green beans and they are really nice size.
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"We have lamb and green beans for supper tonight, Papa," she said gently.
Fiction book (1991) -
And I was making green beans in olive oil with garlic for Roddy.
Fiction book (1997) -
I love adding fresh green beans to my salad for extra crunch.
Synonyms
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An edible seed or pod from plants like peas and lentils used for food
Surface Forms
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 long, green bean pods picked from garden plants and often eaten whole while still crisp. So, this sense means the immature 'pod' or the plant that makes those pods.