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Horse bean   /hɔrs bin/   Listen
Horse bean

noun
1.
A bean plant cultivated for use animal fodder.  Synonym: broad bean.





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"Horse bean" Quotes from Famous Books



... cent in 51 days. Against this, of course, is to be put the weight of the young plant produced; but this is never sufficient to counterbalance the diminished weight of the seed, for Saussure found that a horse bean and the plant produced from it weighed, after 16 days, less by 29 per cent than the seed before germination. The same phenomenon is observed in the process of malting, which is in fact the artificial germination of barley, the malt produced always weighing ...
— Elements of Agricultural Chemistry • Thomas Anderson
... for the introduction of William, of liberty, and the minute buckle; not differing much in size and shape from the horse bean. ...
— An History of Birmingham (1783) • William Hutton


Words linked to "Horse bean" :   field bean, European bean, broad-bean plant, broad-bean, broad bean, English bean, Vicia faba, fodder


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