horse bean

How to use horse bean in a sentence

• They were about the size of a horse-bean, and remarkably lively after their aerial but wingless flight.

  The Romance of Natural History, Second Series | Philip Henry Gosse

• I've never seed such splendid large knobs of fat before in the days of my life—they never used to be bigger then a horse-bean.

  Far from the Madding Crowd | Thomas Hardy

• Toker's bean, for instance, is twice-and-a-half as long and broad as the horse-bean, and is much thinner and of a different shape.

  The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) | Charles Darwin