wild bean
AmericanEtymology
Origin of wild bean
An Americanism dating back to 1770–80
Example Sentences
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Founder Ramus Bo Bojesen has had a long career working with French Michelin restaurants and maintains a passion for chocolate – offered here in desserts and digestive warm cocoa concoctions made from wild beans from Bolivia.
From Washington Times
We gathered the wild beans, and found them a very welcome addition to our diet.
From Project Gutenberg
There is a native wild bean found growing over an area of wide distribution in North America.
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Their merchandise consisted of sand for sugar, wild beans for coffee, dried leaves for tea, pulverized earth for gunpowder, pebbles for bullets, and clear water for dangerous "fire-water."
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The vegetation is almost tropically luxuriant—palms, wild pineapples, and ferns growing profusely, and the valleys being filled with wild beans and patches of taro.
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