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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A twining vine (Dolichos lablab) of the Old World tropics, having purple or white flowers and edible pods and seeds. Also called lablab.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Bot.) a climbing leguminous plant (Dolichos Lablab), related to the true bean. It has dark purple flowers and fruit.
WordNet 3.0
- n. perennial twining vine of Old World tropics having trifoliate leaves and racemes of fragrant purple pea-like flowers followed by maroon pods of edible seeds; grown as an ornamental and as a vegetable on the Indian subcontinent; sometimes placed in genus Dolichos
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Butter Beans and Snaps
List of as many pea and bean varieties as I can cook up - mostly common names.
field peas, butter beans, snap peas, lima beans, crowder peas, haricots verts, string bean, green bean, pole bean, navy bean, white acre peas, zipper pea and 186 more...
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hernesheir All parts of this bean are edible, down to the roots. Dried seeds contain cyanide, and must be extensively boiled to make them consumable.
The plant is a good ornamental producing sweet-smelling flowers that attract hummingbirds and butterflies. When trellised, it produces a thick, fast-growing screen. Aug 26, 2009