French bean

French bean

noun
British. the pod of a green bean or wax bean, eaten as a vegetable.

Origin:
1545–55
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French bean is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
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French bean
 
n
1.  a small twining bushy or annual bean plant, Phaseolus vulgaris, with white or lilac flowers and slender green edible pods
2.  See also haricot the pod of this plant

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