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n. - Old World upright plant grown especially for its large flat edible seeds but also as fodder.

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Usage examples (4)
  • A fresh broad-bean from a fine runner found here but rather green to obtain seed from; may get some ripe further north.
  • At the same moment, its uncertain movements dislodged the anomalous crutch, and the whole wretched construction collapsed into a slowly writhing puddle, like a potfull of...
  • She started with the broad-bean soup and pea royale.
  • There is a ceramic oven dish and colander from my late maternal grandmother, a broad-bean slicer from the other side of the family, a carving knife that I believe was a...
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