| 单词 |
kidney-bean |
| 释义 |
kidney bean, kidney-bean
1. The ordinary name given to two species of Phaseolus (family Leguminosæ), known as the dwarf French bean (P. vulgaris), and the Scarlet Runner (P. multiflorus), of which the unripened pods and the ripe seeds are used as food: see bean n. 3.
1548Turner Names of Herbes 75 Smilax hortensis..may be called in english Kydney beane, because the seede is lyke a Kydney. 1548–62[see bean n. 3]. 1601Holland Pliny I. 570 The Pulse called Phaseoli, i. Kidney Beans vse to be eaten cod and al together. 1732Arbuthnot Rules of Diet i. in Aliments, etc. 251 Beans and Kidney-Beans have the same Qualities. 1882Garden 1 Apr. 222/2 Few plants are more tender early in the season than Kidney Beans.
2. kidney-bean tree. A climbing shrub of the leguminous genus Wistaria as the American species, W. frutescens, and the Chinese, W. chinensis, both grown as wall-climbers in Great Britain.
1741Compl. Fam.-Piece ii. iii. 380 There are several other Trees and Shrubs which are now in Flower, as..Catesby's Climber, or Carolina Kidney-Bean-tree. 1760J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 316 Kidney Bean-tree of Carolina, Glycine. 1897Britton & Brown Flora North. States Canada II. 294 Krauntia frutescens—American Wisteria..Called also Kidney-bean Tree. |
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