favas

Noun

fava (plural favas or fava)

1. A fava bean; a bean (seed or seed pod) of plants of species Vicia faba or the plant itself.
   • Favism, a hemolytic anemia that follows the eating of fava or broadbeans, provides a textbook example of a genotype X environment interaction.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

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