fava

plural favas

1. A fava bean; a bean (seed or seed pod) of plants of species Vicia faba or the plant itself.

   Add the favas and cook for 1 minute.

   2007, Cat Cora et al., Cooking from the Hip, →ISBN, page 197

   3 more examples

   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, Favism, a hemolytic anemia that follows the eating of fava or broadbeans, provides a textbook example of a genotype X environment interaction.

   When spring arrives the fava arrives and everyone in the Mediterranean can dream up a way of cooking it.

   2001, Clifford A. Wright, Mediterranean Vegetables, page 153

   In cool temperate zones favas are planted early in the growing season, several weeks before the last frost, and grown as a summer annual, much like other vegetable crops of the Fabaceae.

   2012, John Navazio, The Organic Seed Grower: A Farmer's Guide to Vegetable Seed Production, page 268

plural Favas

1. A surname from Italian.