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1. Seed of the broad-bean plant
   - broad bean, fava bean [N. Amer]
    
2. Large shrub or shrubby tree having sharp spines and pinnate leaves with small deciduous leaflets and sweet-scented racemose yellow-orange flowers; grown as ornamentals or hedging or emergency food for livestock; tropical America but naturalized in southern United States
   - Jerusalem thorn, Parkinsonia aculeata

1. A bean plant cultivated for use animal fodder
   - broad bean

Derived forms: horsebeans, horse beans

Type of: bean, bush, fodder, shrub

Part of: broad bean, broad-bean, broad-bean plant, English bean, European bean, field bean, genus Parkinsonia, Parkinsonia, Vicia faba

Encyclopedia: Horsebean