Fav vs Fava - What's the difference?
fav | fava |
A fava bean; a bean (seed or seed pod) of the plant Vicia faba or the plant itself.
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* 2001 , Clifford A. Wright, Mediterranean Vegetables ,
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* 2012 , John Navazio, The Organic Seed Grower: A Farmer's Guide to Vegetable Seed Production ,
As nouns the difference between fav and fava
is that fav is abbreviation of lang=en (US) or favourite (UK) while fava is a fava bean; a bean (seed or seed pod) of the plant Vicia faba or the plant itself.As an adjective fav
is abbreviation of lang=en (US) or favourite (UK).fava
English
Noun
(en-noun)page 269,
- Favism, a hemolytic anemia that follows the eating of fava or broadbeans, provides a textbook example of a genotype X environment interaction.
page 153,
- When spring arrives the fava arrives and everyone in the Mediterranean can dream up a way of cooking it.
citation
page 268,
- In cool temperate zones favas are planted early in the growing season, several weeks before the last frost, and grown as a summer annual, much like other vegetable crops of the Fabaceae.
