adsuki bean

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adsuki bean - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Adsuki bean \Ad*su"ki bean\ ([a^]d*s[=oo]"k[i^];
     [a^]d*z[=oo]"k[i^]). [Jap. adzuki.]
     A cultivated variety of the Asiatic gram, now introduced into
     the United States.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

adsuki bean - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  adsuki bean
      n 1: bushy annual widely grown in China and Japan for the flour
           made from its seeds [syn: adzuki bean, adsuki bean,
           Vigna angularis, Phaseolus angularis]