fava

n. 蚕豆(亦作fava bean)

发音

US /ˈfɑː.və/

词形变化

favas 复数 favas

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A fava bean; a bean (seed or seed pod) of plants of species Vicia faba or the plant itself.

    1976, I. I. Gottesman, J. Shields, Rejoinder: Toward optimal arousal and away from original din, Schizophrenia Buletin, 2: 447-453, quoted in 2004, Jay Joseph, The Gene Illusion, page 269, Favism, a hemolytic anemia that follows the eating of fava or broadbeans, provides a textbook example of a genotype X environment interaction.

相关短语

fava bean n. [医]蚕豆 fava beans

词源

Borrowed from Italian fava. Cognate with Portuguese fava and Spanish haba (“broad bean”). Doublet of bean.

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