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 /lɛnˈtɪl/ · noun
- A small, edible seed of the legume plant, often used in soups and stews. It is a good source of protein and fiber. Related: pea, bean, chickpea, split pea.
- PINTO /ˈpɪntoʊ/ · noun, verb
- A pinto is a horse or other animal with white and dark patches, or a type of bean with a mottled appearance. To pinto something is to mark or decorate it with patches of color. Related: painted, spotted, mottled, patched.
- MUNG /mʌŋ/ · verb
- To remove the seeds from (pods of leguminous plants), or to remove the husks from (grains). Related: shuck, dehusk, shell, strip.
- SOYBEAN /soʊˈbeɪn/ · noun
- A legume native to East Asia, widely cultivated for its edible seeds, which are used as a source of protein and oil. Related: legume, bean, pulse, edible 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 /ædˈzuːki/ · noun
- A type of small, red or white bean commonly used in East Asian cuisine, particularly in Japanese and Korean cooking. Related: kidney bean, red bean, white bean.
- LIMA /ˈliːmə/ · noun
- A bean, especially the large, flat, white or pale green seed of the lima bean plant, used as a vegetable. A city in Peru. Related: bean, legume, vegetable, seed.
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