green bean

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green bean (plural green beans)

  1. The immature pods of any kind of bean plant, eaten as a vegetable.
  2. The immature pods of numerous varieties of the common bean, Phaseolus vulgaris.
  3. Ellipsis of green bean galaxy.

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