HomeServicesBlogDictionariesContactSpanish Course
← Back to search

Meaning of fava | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
/ˈfɑː.və/

Definitions

  1. A surname from Italian.
  2. A fava bean; a bean (seed or seed pod) of plants of species Vicia faba or the plant itself.

Equivalents

Español faba haba
Italiano fava
Português fava

Examples

“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.”
“When spring arrives the fava arrives and everyone in the Mediterranean can dream up a way of cooking it.”
“Add the favas and cook for 1 minute.”
“In cool temperate zones favas are planted early in the growing season, several weeks before the last frost, and grown as a summer annual, much like other vegetable crops of the Fabaceae.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

See also

Learn this word in context

See fava used in real conversations inside our free language course.

Start Free Course