HORSEBEAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does horsebean mean? 

• HORSEBEAN (noun)
  The noun HORSEBEAN has 2 senses:

1. seed of the broad-bean plant

2. large shrub or shrubby tree having sharp spines and pinnate leaves with small deciduous leaflets and sweet-scented racemose yellow-orange flowers; grown as ornamentals or hedging or emergency food for livestock; tropical America but naturalized in southern United States

  Familiarity information: HORSEBEAN used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HORSEBEAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Seed of the broad-bean plant

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

broad bean; fava bean; horsebean

Hypernyms ("horsebean" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("horsebean" is a part of...):

broad-bean; broad-bean plant; broad bean; English bean; European bean; field bean; Vicia faba (Old World upright plant grown especially for its large flat edible seeds but also as fodder)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Large shrub or shrubby tree having sharp spines and pinnate leaves with small deciduous leaflets and sweet-scented racemose yellow-orange flowers; grown as ornamentals or hedging or emergency food for livestock; tropical America but naturalized in southern United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

horsebean; Jerusalem thorn; Parkinsonia aculeata

Hypernyms ("horsebean" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Holonyms ("horsebean" is a member of...):

genus Parkinsonia; Parkinsonia (small genus of spiny shrubs or small trees)