fava
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English[edit]
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Noun[edit]
fava (plural favas or fava)
- A fava bean; a bean (seed or seed pod) of the plant Vicia faba or the plant itself.
- 1976, I. I. Gottesman, J. Shields, Rejoinder: Toward optimal arousal and away from original din, Schizophrenia Buletin, 2: 447-453, quoted in 2004, Jay Joseph, The Gene Illusion, page 269,
- Favism, a hemolytic anemia that follows the eating of fava or broadbeans, provides a textbook example of a genotype X environment interaction.
- 2001, Clifford A. Wright, Mediterranean Vegetables, page 153,
- When spring arrives the fava arrives and everyone in the Mediterranean can dream up a way of cooking it.
- 2012, John Navazio, The Organic Seed Grower: A Farmer's Guide to Vegetable Seed Production, page 268,
- In cool temperate zones favas are planted early in the growing season, several weeks before the last frost, and grown as a summer annual, much like other vegetable crops of the Fabaceae.
- 1976, I. I. Gottesman, J. Shields, Rejoinder: Toward optimal arousal and away from original din, Schizophrenia Buletin, 2: 447-453, quoted in 2004, Jay Joseph, The Gene Illusion, page 269,
Usage notes[edit]
The collocation fava bean is much more common, even for the plant.
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Catalan[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin faba, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰabʰ- (“bean”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -aβa
Noun[edit]
fava f (plural faves)
Italian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin faba, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰabʰ- (“bean”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
fava f (plural fave)
- fava bean, broad bean
- (vulgar) cock (Tuscan slang for penis)
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Portuguese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Portuguese fava, from Latin faba (“bean”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰabʰ- (“bean”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
fava f (plural favas)
- fava bean (Vicia faba)
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