long bean

noun

: yard-long bean

The chewy, robustly flavored Asian legume known as the long bean truly lives up to its name. The beans … can grow as long as a meter.

—Karen Shimizu, Saveur, June/July 2008

Word History

First Known Use

1922, in the meaning defined above

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