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Definition of Field bean
1. Noun. Old World upright plant grown especially for its large flat edible seeds but also as fodder.
Terms within: Broad Bean, Horse Bean, Broad Bean, Fava Bean, Horsebean
Generic synonyms: Shell Bean, Shell Bean Plant
Group relationships: Genus Vicia, Vicia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Field Bean
Literary usage of Field bean
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Field Crops by Archie Dell Wilson, Clyde William Warburton (1912)
"Among the plants which are grown under field conditions for both seed and forage
are the cowpea, soy bean, field pea, and peanut, while the field bean is ..."
2. American Agriculturist (1847)
"WE can well remember when the field bean was universally used as a crop for
harvesting dry, the garden bean being considered unsuitable for this purpose. ..."
3. Successful Farming; a Ready Reference on All Phases of Agriculture for by Frank Duane Gardner (1916)
"field bean.—Is extensively grown under field conditions for the production of
dried beans. These become the baked beans of New England fame. ..."
4. The London Medical Gazette (1840)
"In the substance of the middle lobe of the left lung there wasa large,
hard,circumscribed tumor, of the size of a large field-bean. ..."
5. Dry Land Farming by Thomas Shaw (1909)
"These are the common field bean and the soy bean. Each of these includes many
varieties. The common field bean may be grown over much of the semi-arid area, ..."
6. Annual Report by Ohio State Board of Agriculture (1876)
"Of the field bean there are at least twelve varieties, and of the garden about
twenty. The earliest garden bean is a small-seeded kind called the ..."
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