- pinto bean
- `pinto ,bean noun counta small bean with brown spots that you can cook and eat
Usage of the words and phrases in modern English. 2013.
pinto bean
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pinto bean — n a small light brown bean … Dictionary of contemporary English
pinto bean — ☆ pinto bean n. a kind of mottled kidney bean grown in the SW U.S. for food and fodder … English World dictionary
pinto bean — noun mottled or spotted bean of southwestern United States; usually dried • Hypernyms: ↑common bean * * * noun, pl ⋯ beans [count] : a type of small bean that is grown for food * * * ˈpinto bean 7 noun a type of curved ↑bean with coloured marks… … Useful english dictionary
pinto bean — UK [ˈpɪntəʊ ˌbiːn] / US [ˈpɪntoʊ ˌbɪn] noun [countable] Word forms pinto bean : singular pinto bean plural pinto beans a small bean with brown spots that you can cook and eat … English dictionary
pinto bean — noun a speckled variety of kidney bean. Origin early 20th cent.: from pinto, because of the mottled appearance of the bean … English new terms dictionary
pinto bean — pin′to bean n. pln a variety of the common bean, Phaseolus vulgaris, having pinkish mottled seeds, grown chiefly in the southern U.S … From formal English to slang
pinto bean — noun Date: 1913 a mottled kidney bean that is grown for food and for stock feed … New Collegiate Dictionary
pinto bean — a variety of the common bean, Phaseolus vulgaris, having mottled or spotted seeds: grown chiefly in the southern U.S. [1915 20, Amer.] * * * … Universalium
pinto bean — noun One of several varieties of common bean, Phaseolus vulgaris, common in the US and Mexico … Wiktionary
pinto bean — noun (C) a small light brown bean … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
