black bean
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Noun
black bean (countable and uncountable, plural black beans)
- A bean plant with black seeds.
- A dried seed of a black bean plant.
- A dried black seed of certain varieties of the common bean, Phaseolus vulgaris.
- A fermented soybean, used in Asian cooking.
- An Australian tree (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.), also called Moreton Bay chestnut.
Synonyms
- (black seed of variety of common bean): black turtle bean(Please check if this is already defined at target. Replace
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See also
Further reading
black bean on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Phaseolus vulgaris on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Castanospermum australe on Wikispecies.Wikispecies