Chinese long bean

noun

: yard-long bean

While traipsing through farmers' markets recently, I've spied bundles of Chinese long beans, from a distance looking much like piles of green spaghetti.

—Lynne Char Bennett, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Aug. 2010

… huge bamboo baskets overflowing with tangles of bright-green Chinese long beans.

—Brooke Dojny, Bon Appétit, October 1997

Word History

First Known Use

1913, in the meaning defined above

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