fava

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

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.”

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