sugar bean, noun phrase
Usually in the plural : The dried beans, reddish and mottled in colour, of a hybrid of Phaseolus vulgaris of the Fabaceae, a staple food for many. Also attributive.
1916 Farmer’s Weekly 20 Dec. 1454For Sale. Seed Beans, large White Butter, Round Sugar and Yellow; also Soya Beans.
1988 F. Williams Cape Malay Cookbk 95In the past, this [funeral meal] would have been wortel en ertjie bredie or sugar bean bredie, but nowadays mutton curry served with rice..has taken preference.
Usually in the plural :The dried beans, reddish and mottled in colour, of a hybrid of Phaseolus vulgaris of the Fabaceae, a staple food for many. Also attributive.
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