Phaseolus vulgaris French bean (Common names)

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Common names: Phaseolus vulgaris

Common names: Phaseolus vulgaris runner bean

Common names: Phaseolus vulgaris wax bean

Common names: Phaseolus vulgaris bush bean

Common names: Phaseolus vulgaris climbing bean

Common names: Phaseolus vulgaris dry bean

Common names: Phaseolus vulgaris pop bean

Names in common use

• English: French bean (UK), green bean (USA), string bean (northeastern USA), snap bean
• German: grüne Bohne, Brechbohne; Prinzessbohne¹
• Dutch: groene boon; sperzieboon², slaboon², prinsesseboon²
• Swedish: haricots verts, brytböna (pl. brytbönor)
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• French: haricot vert; haricot filet¹, haricot princesse², haricot mangetout²
• Italian: fagiolino, cornetto
• Spanish: habichuela, judía verde
• Catalan: mongeta tendra, bajoca
• Portuguese: vagem (pl. vagens)
• Romanian: fasole verde
  

• Russian:
• Polish: fasola szparagowa
• Czech:
• Slovak:
• Bulgarian:
• Croatian: mahune
• Serb:
• Slovenian: stročji fižol
  

• Albanian: fasule të njoma, mashurka
• Greek: χλορά φασόλια, χλορά φασούλια (pl.) - khlora fasolia, khlora fasoulia
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• Finnish:
  

Sources and commentaries

French beans are the immature pods of green or purple beans of round section, before the development of seeds (1), or with small or immature seeds (2). The name is usually at the plural form. Names such as snap bean, Brechbohne and breekboon indicate that they are broken by hand before cooking, in contrast with runner bean, which cannot be broken, but is instead cut with a knife. MC