Fava vs Fave - What's the difference?
fava | fave |
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 ,
* {{quote-book, 2007, Cat Cora et al., Cooking from the Hip
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* 2012 , John Navazio, The Organic Seed Grower: A Farmer's Guide to Vegetable Seed Production ,
(informal) Favorite (US) or favourite (UK).
* 2010 September, , ISSN 1090-5723, volume 16, issue 9, page 8:
*:* Select articles from this issue
*:* An editors' podcast
*:* A Google Map of our Best Dressed winners' fave shops
As nouns the difference between fava and fave
is that fava is a fava bean; a bean (seed or seed pod) of the plant Vicia faba or the plant itself while fave is favorite (US) or favourite (UK.As an adjective fave is
favorite (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.
Usage notes
The collocation fava bean is much more common, even for the plant.Derived terms
* fava bean ----fave
English
Alternative forms
* favAdjective
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