adzuki bean

[ad-zoo-kee]

ad·zu·ki bean

[ad-zoo-kee]
noun
1.
a bushy plant, Vigna (Phaseolus) angularis, widely cultivated in Asia.
2.
the edible bean of this plant, from which a flour is made.


Origin:
< Japanese azuki, earlier aduki
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Adzuki bean is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
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.
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adzuki bean

noun
bushy annual widely grown in China and Japan for the flour made from its seeds 
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