haricot

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: har=i=cot

CIDE DICTIONARY

haricot, n. [F.].

•  A ragout or stew of meat with beans and other vegetables.  [1913 Webster]
•  The ripe seeds, or the unripe pod, of the common string bean (Phaseolus vulgaris), used as a vegetable. Other species of the same genus furnish different kinds of haricots.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

haricot, n.
1 (in full haricot bean) a variety of French bean with small white seeds.
2 the dried seed of this used as a vegetable.

Etymology

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