kidney bean

noun

a common bean, Phaseolus vulgaris, cultivated in many varieties for its edible seeds and pods.
the mature kidney-shaped seed of this plant.

kidney bean

any of certain bean plants having kidney-shaped seeds, esp the French bean and scarlet runner
the seed of any of these beans

First recorded in 1540–50

One of the little Bobbies pulls a kidney bean or a tomato or digs a potato for my dinner, about half an hour before it is served.

Moreover he made him a landing net, with a kidney-bean stick, a ring of wire, and his own best nightcap of strong cotton net.

Here there was a rail across, about as big as a kidney-bean stick, whereupon they leaned, and looked into the water under them.

It was, almost exactly, a wind sock, but the hole at the small end was shaped—by wire—into the general form of a kidney bean.

It is criminal to smother the kidney bean with melted butter at table.

April 25, 2024firkin

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