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/ˈfɑː.və/ · noun
A fava bean; a bean (seed or seed pod) of plants of species 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.
When spring arrives the fava arrives and everyone in the Mediterranean can dream up a way of cooking it.
Add the favas and cook for 1 minute.
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.
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Fava means A fava bean; a bean (seed or seed pod) of plants of species Vicia faba or the plant itself..
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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.
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