Meaning & use
habas beans
Large, flat edible beans, also called fava or broad beans, popular in Spanish and Latin American cooking.
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The stew was thickened with habas beans, garlic, and smoked paprika.
She soaked the habas beans overnight before adding them to the soup.
A note on using this word
Habas already means 'beans' in Spanish, so 'habas beans' is a redundant but common English phrasing for fava beans.
Words with a similar meaning
fava beansbroad beans
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