kidney bean
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large dark red bean; usually dried
the common bean plant grown for the beans rather than the pods (especially a variety with large red kidney-shaped beans)
Source: WordNetAlternative names
kidney-bean
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Furthermore, the Inughuits, a tiny group of Inuits from northernmost Greenland (accounting for 1 percent of Greenland’s population), had long since had their own name for the island, Tartupaluk, which in their tongue denotes its kidney bean shape.
Other alleged weight reduction aids were made of Malabar tamarinds, white kidney bean extract, extract of forskolin (root of a plant in the mint family), and extract of a cactus from India and elsewhere.