fava
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian fava. Cognate with Spanish haba (“broad bean”). Doublet of bean.
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɑːvə
Noun
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
The collocation fava bean is much more common, even for the plant.
Derived terms
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin faba, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰabʰ- (“bean”).
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -aβa
Noun
fava f (plural faves)
Italian
Etymology
From Latin faba, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰabʰ- (“bean”).
Pronunciation
Noun
fava f (plural fave)
Derived terms
Related terms
See also
Further reading
- Fava on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese fava, from Latin faba (“bean”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰabʰ- (“bean”).
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: fa‧va
- Rhymes: -avɐ
Noun
fava f (plural favas)
- fava bean (Vicia faba)
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