Beans and Legumes Word Search
Free Beans and Legumes word search. We picked 12 themed words — the ingredients, dishes, and flavors of a food topic — and laid them out on a 15×15 grid. Drag across the letters to find every word on the list.
Words to find: KIDNEYBEAN, CHICKPEA, LENTIL, PINTO, NAVYBEAN, BLACKEYE, MUNG, SOYBEAN, FAVA, ADZUKI, LIMA, CANNELLINI.
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Beans and Legumes word list, defined
- CHICKPEA /ˈtʃɪkpiː/ · noun
- A round, beige seed of an annual legume plant (Cicer arietinum), widely eaten as a vegetable and ground into flour; also the plant itself. Related: garbanzo, garbanzo bean, Bengal gram.
- LENTIL /ˈlɛntəl/ · noun
- A small, flat, lens-shaped legume with a mild, earthy flavor, commonly used in soups, stews, curries, and vegetable dishes. Lentils may be sold dried or canned and come in varieties such as green, brown, black, and red.
- PINTO /ˈpɪntoʊ/ (US); /ˈpɪntəʊ/ (British English) · noun, adjective
- A pinto is a horse with a coat marked by conspicuous patches of one color against another; it can also denote a mottled variety of common bean. As an adjective, pinto describes an animal with such a spotted or piebald coat. Related: piebald, spotted horse, mottled bean.
- MUNG /mʌŋ/ · noun; verb
- As a noun, mung means dung, filth, or a dirty mass of material; in informal usage it can also mean a contemptible person. As a verb, mung means to grind, mash, or crush something into a soft or messy consistency. Related: dung, filth, mess, mash.
- SOYBEAN /ˈsɔɪ.biːn/ · noun
- A legume cultivated for its edible seeds, which are rich in protein and oil. Soybeans are used to produce soybean oil, meal, flour, milk, tofu, and many other food products. Related: soya bean, soya, soybean seed.
- FAVA /ˈfɑːvə/ · noun
- A fava is the seed of a plant of the bean family, Vicia faba, widely cultivated for food; the term usually appears in the plural or attributively in "fava bean," especially in American English. Related: broad bean, horsebean, field bean.
- ADZUKI /əˈzuːki/ · noun
- A small red bean used especially in Japanese and other East Asian cooking. The beans are also made into a sweet paste used in mochi, pastries, and other confections. Related: azuki, red bean, Japanese red bean.
- LIMA /ˈliːmə/ · noun
- A large, pale green, kidney-shaped bean, also called a lima bean. By extension, the term names a Peruvian monetary unit equal to one hundredth of a sol. Related: butter bean, kidney bean, lima bean.
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