fava
fava · favas · fava
A fava bean; a bean of plants of species Vicia faba or the plant itselfA fava bean; a bean (seed or seed pod) of plants of species Vicia faba or the plant itself.
US/ˈfɑː.və/
» You will eat couscous with fava beans.
Meaning
1 sensesA fava bean; a bean (seed or seed pod) of plants of species Vicia faba or the plant itself.
Examples
4 sentencesYou will eat couscous with fava beans.
You'll be eating couscous with fava beans.
I baked bread with fava beans, white sorghum, barley and wheat.
A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.
Translations
2 languagesOrigin
Borrowed from Italian fava. Cognate with Portuguese fava and Spanish haba (“broad bean”).Borrowed from Italian fava. Cognate with Portuguese fava and Spanish haba (“broad bean”). Doublet of bean.
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Forms
plural: favas / favaWord family
2 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Plural nouns — Because its plural is irregular