broad bean

Noun

• shell beans cooked as lima beans

• a bean plant cultivated for use animal fodder

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

• seed of the broad-bean plant

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  fava bean , horse bean , broad-bean , broad-bean plant , English bean , European bean , field bean , Vicia faba , horsebean