英语词汇fava bean的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	fava bean
词源	fava bean. The fava bean takes its name from faba, the Latin word for “bean.” It is often called the broad bean, horse bean, or Windsor bean. Since antiquity this widely grown legume has been known to cause favism in people of African and Mediter- ranean origin with a certain enzyme deficiency, fava-bean poi- soning sometimes proving fatal.
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