GREEN BEAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does green bean mean? 

• GREEN BEAN (noun)
  The noun GREEN BEAN has 4 senses:

1. immature bean pod eaten as a vegetable

2. seed of the mung bean plant; used for food

3. a common bean plant cultivated for its slender green edible pods

4. seed of the mung bean plant used for food

  Familiarity information: GREEN BEAN used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GREEN BEAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Immature bean pod eaten as a vegetable

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("green bean" is a kind of...):

fresh bean (beans eaten before they are ripe as opposed to dried)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "green bean"):

snap; snap bean (tender green beans without strings that easily snap into sections)

string bean (green beans with strings that must be removed)

Kentucky wonder; Kentucky wonder bean (flat-podded green bean)

English runner bean; runner bean; scarlet runner; scarlet runner bean (long bean pods usually sliced into half-inch lengths; a favorite in Britain)

French bean; haricot vert; haricots verts (very small and slender green bean)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Seed of the mung bean plant; used for food

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

golden gram; green bean; green gram; green soy; mash bean; monggo; moong; mung; mung bean; munggo

Hypernyms ("green bean" is a kind of...):

bean (any of various seeds or fruits that are beans or resemble beans)

Holonyms ("green bean" is a part of...):

mung; mung bean; mung bean plant; Phaseolus aureus; Vigna radiata (erect bushy annual widely cultivated in warm regions of India and Indonesia and United States for forage and especially its edible seeds; chief source of bean sprouts used in Chinese cookery; sometimes placed in genus Phaseolus)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A common bean plant cultivated for its slender green edible pods

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("green bean" is a kind of...):

common bean; common bean plant; Phaseolus vulgaris (the common annual twining or bushy bean plant grown for its edible seeds or pods)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "green bean"):

haricot (a French variety of green bean plant bearing light-colored beans)

Holonyms ("green bean" is a member of...):

genus Phaseolus; Phaseolus (herbs of warm regions including most American beans)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Seed of the mung bean plant used for food

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

golden gram; green bean; green gram; green soy; mash bean; monggo; moong; mung; mung bean; munggo

Hypernyms ("green bean" is a kind of...):

bean; edible bean (any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae used for food)

Holonyms ("green bean" is a part of...):

mung; mung bean; mung bean plant; Phaseolus aureus; Vigna radiata (erect bushy annual widely cultivated in warm regions of India and Indonesia and United States for forage and especially its edible seeds; chief source of bean sprouts used in Chinese cookery; sometimes placed in genus Phaseolus)