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string bean

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string bean
any of several bean plants, such as the scarlet runner, cultivated for their edible unripe pods


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No more can it be explained than can a human explain why, at luncheon to-day, he selects green peas and rejects string beans, when only yesterday he elected to choose string beans and to reject green peas.
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