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red beans

red beans is the plural of red bean.

red beans is the ellipsis of red beans and rice.

Meaning of red bean

Noun

red bean (countable and uncountable, plural red beans)

  1. (countable) The azuki bean (Vigna angularis), most common in East Asia.
  2. (countable) The rice bean (Vigna umbellata).
  3. (countable) Any of various red varieties of the common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris), including the kidney bean, Honduran red bean, and Salvadoran red bean.
  4. (uncountable) A paste made of azuki beans.
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    Synonyms:
    anko

Meaning of red beans and rice

Noun

red beans and rice (uncountable)

  1. (Louisiana, New Orleans) A Louisiana Creole dish made with small red beans, vegetables, spices, oftentimes pork bones, frequently a meat such as ham or sausage, and served over white rice.
    • Red beans and rice is a staple on our Monday-night dinner table.
    Synonyms:
    red beans

Questions about red beans

What is red beans the plural of?
Red beans is the plural of red bean.

Words near red beans in the dictionary

  1. red bean paste
  2. red bean pastes
  3. red bean porridge
  4. red bean soup
  5. red bean soups
  6. red beans
  7. red beans and rice
  8. red beet
  9. red beets
  10. red biddy
  11. red birch

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Adapted from Wiktionary: red beans (page history and authors); red bean (page history and authors); red beans and rice (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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