🎸 Without strings 🫘 No tough seam

stringless

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Not having the tough strip along the side of green beans, so they are easier to eat

adjective
/ˈstrɪŋləs/

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When you buy stringless peas, you won't have to worry about removing any tough fibers before cooking.

Examples

The stringless green beans are much easier to cook and eat than their stringy counterparts.
And then I also have something called a like a Landreth stringless or something.
I really like my beans and I got some Cherokee wax, some burpee stringless, some Kentucky wonder pole beans.
Stringless varieties of beans are popular among chefs because they save time in food preparation.

Surface Forms

stringless positive

Morphology

stringless = string (transparent) = string + less

The adjective is the straightforward negative formation from 'string', indicating absence of the fibrous seam in beans.

Etymology

Stringless comes from string, the thin, tough cord found along some beans, and -less meaning 'without'. So stringless describes beans that are 'without the string', which makes them easier and nicer to cook and eat.