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long bean

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Definition of long bean

: yard-long bean The chewy, robustly flavored Asian legume known as the long bean truly lives up to its name. The beans … can grow as long as a meter.— Karen Shimizu, Saveur, June/July 2008

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1922, in the meaning defined above

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