snap bean

noun

: a bean grown primarily for its long pods that are cooked as a vegetable while young and tender and before the seeds have become enlarged compare shell bean

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Consider planting crops suitable for a small row garden, such as snap beans, tomatoes, lettuce, onions, peppers, and greens. — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 2 Mar. 2025 There is Franny, a pole snap bean named for Francesca Mariscesco, the only member of her family to survive Nazi concentration camps, who came as a refugee to the United States in 1946 with its seeds sewn into the folds of her clothing. — Margaret Roach, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2025

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1770, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of snap bean was in 1770

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snap bean

noun
: a bean grown primarily for its long pods that are cooked as a vegetable while they are still young and tender and before their seeds have become enlarged compare shell bean
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