pinto bean

English

pinto beans

Etymology

From Spanish pinto (“painted”), named for its mottled skin.

Noun

pinto bean (plural pinto beans)

1. (US, usually in the plural) Any bean of several varieties of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris), common in the US and Mexico.

Translations

variety of common bean

• Czech: pinto fazole
• Dutch: kievitsboon f, pintoboon f
• Finnish: pintopapu
• Galician: faba pinta f
• Hungarian: tarkabab (hu)
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: pintoböna c