yard-long bean
- noun
- /jɑrd lɔŋ bin/
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frijol yardlong
- I added chopped yard-long beans to my soup for extra flavor and texture.
- a pound of yard-long beans
- Chinese yard-long beans
Some beans, Oriental yard long bean, Blue Lake pole bean, Blue Lake Bush bean, Kentucky wonder pole bean.
- Some beans, Oriental yard long bean, Blue Lake pole bean, Blue Lake Bush bean, Kentucky wonder pole bean.
Examples
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Some beans, Oriental yard long bean, Blue Lake pole bean, Blue Lake Bush bean, Kentucky wonder pole bean.
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Yard-long beans are a delicious addition to stir-fries and salads.
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You can find yard-long beans at the local farmer's market during the summer.
Synonyms
A long thin bean with pods you can eat, often used in Asian cooking
A tropical plant like a bean that makes very long edible pods
A plant with very long green bean pods that people eat
How Thin
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Morphology
yard-long + bean
The compound is compositionally built from 'yard-long' (a measurement plus 'long') and 'bean', so its meaning—a bean that is very long, approximately a yard—is directly inferable from the parts. Measurement+noun compounds are cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows 'yard' and 'long' (or at least understands the pattern) can reasonably deduce the MWE's meaning from its constituents.
Etymology
The noun yard-long bean comes from a simple picture: the bean's pods can grow almost as long as a yard, so people named the vegetable for its length. That's why yard-long bean means 'a type of bean with very long pods'.