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fava

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Scrabble points
10
Words With Friends
11
Letters
4
Pronunciation
/ˈfɑː.və/(US)

Definition of fava

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A fava bean; a bean (seed or seed pod) of plants of species Vicia faba or the plant itself.
    “1976, I. I. Gottesman, J. Shields, Rejoinder: Toward optimal arousal and away from original din, Schizophrenia Buletin, 2: 447-453, quoted in 2004, Jay Joseph, The Gene Illusion, page 269, Favism, a hemolytic anemia that follows the eating of fava or broadbeans, provides a textbook example of a genotype X environment interaction.”
    “When spring arrives the fava arrives and everyone in the Mediterranean can dream up a way of cooking it.”
    “Add the favas and cook for 1 minute.”
    “In cool temperate zones favas are planted early in the growing season, several weeks before the last frost, and grown as a summer annual, much like other vegetable crops of the Fabaceae.”
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noun

  1. A fava bean; a bean (seed or seed pod) of plants of species Vicia faba or the plant itself.
    “1976, I. I. Gottesman, J. Shields, Rejoinder: Toward optimal arousal and away from original din, Schizophrenia Buletin, 2: 447-453, quoted in 2004, Jay Joseph, The Gene Illusion, page 269, Favism, a hemolytic anemia that follows the eating of fava or broadbeans, provides a textbook example of a genotype X environment interaction.”
    “When spring arrives the fava arrives and everyone in the Mediterranean can dream up a way of cooking it.”
    “Add the favas and cook for 1 minute.”
    “In cool temperate zones favas are planted early in the growing season, several weeks before the last frost, and grown as a summer annual, much like other vegetable crops of the Fabaceae.”

name

  1. A surname from Italian.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian fava. Cognate with Portuguese fava and Spanish haba (“broad bean”). Doublet of bean.

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