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jack-bean

jack-bean is the alternative form of jack bean.

Meaning of jack bean

Noun

jack bean (plural jack beans)

  1. Any member of the species Canavalia ensiformis of annual plants from Central America grown for theirs large, slightly toxic, but edible bean-like pods.
  2. Any plant in the genus Canavalia.

Forms of jack-bean

pluraljack-beans

Questions about jack-bean

What is jack-bean the alternative form of?
Jack-bean is the alternative form of jack bean.

Words near jack-bean in the dictionary

  1. Jack-at-all-trades
  2. jack-back
  3. jack-backs
  4. jack-ball
  5. jack-balls
  6. jack-bean
  7. jack-beans
  8. jack-boot
  9. jack-booted
  10. jack-booting
  11. jack-boots

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Adapted from Wiktionary: jack-bean (page history and authors); jack bean (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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