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Fava vs Ava - What's the difference?

fava | ava |

As nouns the difference between fava and ava

is that fava is a fava bean; a bean (seed or seed pod) of the plant Vicia faba or the plant itself while ava is alternative form of lang=en.

As a proper noun Ava is

{{given name|female|from=Germanic|}}. Popular in the 2000s in all English-speaking countries.

fava

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A fava bean; a bean (seed or seed pod) of the plant Vicia faba or the plant itself.
  • * 1976', I. I. Gottesman, J. Shields, ''Rejoinder: Toward optimal arousal and away from original din'', ''Schizophrenia Buletin'', 2: 447-453, quoted in '''2004 , Jay Joseph, ''The Gene Illusion , page 269,
    • Favism, a hemolytic anemia that follows the eating of fava or broadbeans, provides a textbook example of a genotype X environment interaction.
  • * 2001 , Clifford A. Wright, Mediterranean Vegetables , page 153,
    • When spring arrives the fava arrives and everyone in the Mediterranean can dream up a way of cooking it.
  • * {{quote-book, 2007, Cat Cora et al., Cooking from the Hip citation
    • , passage=Add the favas and cook for 1 minute.}}
  • * 2012 , John Navazio, The Organic Seed Grower: A Farmer's Guide to Vegetable Seed Production , 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.

    Usage notes

    The collocation fava bean is much more common, even for the plant.

    Derived terms

    * fava bean ----

    ava

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • . Popular in the 2000s in all English-speaking countries.
  • * 1881 Mary E. Jackson: The Spy of Osawatomie; or, The Mysterious Companions of Old John Brown , W.S.Bryan 1881, page 57
    • Ava Haynes, the oldest daughter, was a warm friend of Lillie Calhoun, whom she soon sought and led quickly into the conservatory.
  • * 2004 Gayle Brandeis, The Book of Dead Birds: A Novel , HarperCollins, ISBN 0060528044, page 5
    • My mother named me Ava because she liked how the English letters looked - the big A a beak pointed upward, the v a sharp slash of wings, the small a round and flat as a parrot's eye.
  • A city in Illinois.
  • A city in Missouri.
  • A town in New York.
  • An unincorporated community in Ohio.
    • English palindromes