jack bean
IPA: dʒˈækbˈin
noun
- An annual plant from Central America grown for its large, slightly toxic, but edible bean-like pods, Canavalia ensiformis.
- Any plant in the genus Canavalia.
Examples of "jack bean" in Sentences
- The ingredients also include radish or cabbage, wild carrot or a relative, yarrow, jack bean and a hibiscus species.
Examples of "jack-bean" in Sentences
- And that reminds me, Aunt Viney says be sure and save some of the dry jack-bean seed from last year you had out here in the seed press for -- "
- The tiny gourds hung yellow among the vines that clambered over the roof of the porch, and a brave jack-bean -- a friend of the sheltering eaves -- made shift to bloom purple and white, though others of the kind hung, crisp and sere, and rattled their dry bones in every gust.