fava bean

English Thesaurus

1. shell beans cooked as lima beans (noun.food)

hypernym	:	shell bean,
definition	:	unripe beans removed from the pod before cooking (noun.food)

2. seed of the broad-bean plant (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	bean,
definition	:	any of various seeds or fruits that are beans or resemble beans (noun.plant)

part meronym	:	broad bean, broad-bean, broad-bean plant, english bean, european bean, field bean, vicia faba,
definition	:	Old World upright plant grown especially for its large flat edible seeds but also as fodder (noun.plant)