kidney beans
- plural of kidney bean.
Example Sentences
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They are to to be met with in gardens on kidney-beans, or any legumens; but prevail only in the hot months of summer.
From The Natural History of Selborne by White, Gilbert
Maize, kidney-beans, manioc, sugar-cane and vines are cultivated; and in ordinary years grain is exported to the other islands.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" by Various
Mrs. Merriam was perfectly willing, and while Florence was getting the tubes of paints, and the brushes, Winona brought out a jar of ordinary kidney-beans from the kitchen.
From Winona of the Camp Fire by Widdemer, Margaret
We observed also a few patches of buck-wheat, and different sorts of kidney-beans; but neither common wheat, barley, nor oats.
They marched in this manner, under continual assaults, for eight days, at the end of which period they came to the town of Aute, where they got Indian corn, pompions, kidney-beans, and other provisions.
