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wild bean

noun

  1. any of several other leguminous plants, especially of the genus Strophostyles.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of wild bean1

An Americanism dating back to 1770–80

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Example Sentences

There is a native wild bean found growing over an area of wide distribution in North America.

Where the cliff was of solid rock, trailing wild-bean drooped across and softened it.

Among these is a wild bean which equals in flavor any domestic bean that I have ever tasted.

The wild bean is found in all parts of the valleys where the land is moist and rich.

Everywhere the flowering boneset, and the rose-bloom of the wild bean.

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