Why were beans called beans?
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The plant we know as the bean has the Latin name Phaseolus, which means "long bean". This name originally referred to other legumes already known to Europeans - beans, peas, lentils. Later, in the 16th century, it spread to the beans that came to Europe from the New World. This culture has been known in Russia since the beginning of the 18th century - it was brought from Poland, where it was called "fasola". In Russian, the name has changed to the familiar to us "beans". From the same Polish word also came the Ukrainian "kvassol" and the Belarusian "beans".
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