field bean (redirected from field beans)

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field bean - Old World upright plant grown especially for its large flat edible seeds but also as fodder broad-bean, broad-bean plant, English bean, European bean, Vicia faba, broad bean horse bean, broad bean - a bean plant cultivated for use animal fodder shell bean, shell bean plant - a bean plant grown primarily for its edible seed rather than its pod genus Vicia, Vicia - widely distributed genus of annual or perennial and often climbing herbs broad bean, fava bean, horsebean - seed of the broad-bean plant