Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun horse_bean

1 sense of horse bean

Sense 1
broad bean, horse bean -- (a bean plant cultivated for use animal fodder)
       => fodder -- (coarse food (especially for livestock) composed of entire plants or the leaves and stalks of a cereal crop)


2 senses of horsebean

Sense 1
broad bean, fava bean, horsebean -- (seed of the broad-bean plant)
       => bean -- (any of various seeds or fruits that are beans or resemble beans)

Sense 2
Jerusalem thorn, horsebean, Parkinsonia aculeata -- (large shrub or shrubby tree having sharp spines and pinnate leaves with small deciduous leaflets and sweet-scented racemose yellow-orange flowers; grown as ornamentals or hedging or emergency food for livestock; tropical America but naturalized in southern United States)
       => shrub, bush -- (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)