red bean

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red bean

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noun red beans

countable The azuki bean (Vigna angularis), most common in East Asia.
countable The rice bean (Vigna umbellata).
countable Any of various red varieties of the common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris), including the kidney bean, Honduran red bean, and Salvadoran red bean.
uncountable A paste made of azuki beans. China’s dragon-boat festival ensures fishermen’s safety through consumption of meat, lotus seed (Nelumbo spp., Nelumbonaceae), date, water chestnut (Trapa spp., Trapaceae), and zongzi, which are glutinous-rice dumplings wrapped in bamboo or reed leaves (Poaceae) and filled with red bean (Luard 2001)
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@misc{red_bean_2026,
  title = {red bean},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/red%20bean},
  urldate = {2026-11-07}
}