green bean

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Noun

green bean (plural green beans)

1. The immature pods of any kind of bean plant, eaten as a vegetable.
2. The immature pods of numerous varieties of the common bean, Phaseolus vulgaris.
3. Ellipsis of green bean galaxy.

Hyponyms

• (common bean): bobby bean; string bean; runner bean; stringless bean; fine bean; French bean; snap bean

Derived terms

• French green bean
• green bean galaxy
• Italian green bean

Translations

immature pods of any kind of bean

• Arabic: فَاصُولِيَاء f (fāṣūliyāʔ)
• Aromanian: pãstalje f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 四季豆 (zh) (sìjìdòu)

• Classical Nahuatl: exōtl
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: vihreä papu
• French: haricot (fr) m, haricot vert (fr) m
• Galician: cornello m, feixón verde m, vaxa f
• German: grüne Bohne f, Brechbohne f, Prinzessbohne (de) f (very young), Gartenbohne f
• Greek: φασολάκια (el) n pl (fasolákia)
• Hungarian: zöldbab (hu)
• Indonesian: buncis (id)
• Italian: fagiolino (it) m
• Japanese: サヤマメ (sayamame), さや豆 (さやまめ, sayamame)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Luxembourgish: gréng Boun f
• Portuguese: vagem (pt) f
• Romanian: păstăi verzi f pl, fasole verde f
• Russian: зелёная фасо́ль f (zeljónaja fasólʹ)
• Spanish: bajoca f (Eastern Spain), caparrón verde m (Northern Central Spain), chaucha f (Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay), ejote m (Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras), fréjol m (Northwestern Spain), habichuela f (Colombia, Cuba, Panama, Southern Spain and Canary Islands), habichuela tierna f (Puerto Rico), habichuela verde f (Southern Spain), judía verde f (Spain standard usage), poroto verde m (Chile), vaina (Spanish Basque Country), vainica f (Costa Rica, Nicaragua), vainita f (Bolivia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela)
• Swedish: grön böna c, haricot vert
• Tagalog: sitaw
• Turkish: taze fasulye (tr)
• Ukrainian: стрічкова квасоля (stričkova kvasolja)
• Wolof: ariko (wo)

immature pods of common bean

• Amharic: ፈሶሊያ (fäsoliya)
• Catalan: bajoca (ca) f, mongeta tendra (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 菜豆 (zh) (càidòu)

• Czech: fazolka f
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dzongkha: སྲནམ་ཅུམ་ཧོནམོ (sranm cum honmo)
• Finnish: vihreä papu
• Greek: φασολάκια (el) n pl (fasolákia)
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: fasola szparagowa (pl) f, fasolka szparagowa (pl) f
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can

References

• green bean on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Category:Green beans on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Phaseolus vulgaris on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons