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Stewed vs Fava - What's the difference?

stewed | fava |

As an adjective stewed

is having been cooked by slowly boiling or simmering see stew.

As a verb stewed

is (stew).

As a noun fava is

.

stewed

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having been cooked by slowly boiling or simmering. See stew.
  • Intoxicated by an excess of alcohol.
  • (Of tea) Bitter from having been steeped too long.
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (stew)
  • Anagrams

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    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 ----