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mazagan|ˈmæzəgæn|
[Said to be named from Mazagan in Morocco, where it grows wild.]
In full mazagan bean: a small early variety of the broad bean, Faba vulgaris.
1754Justice Scots Gardiners Director 190 The Mazagan and the early Lisbon are the earliest kinds; but I prefer the Mazagan Bean. 1759Miller Gard. Dict. (ed. 7) s.v. Faba, The Mazagan Bean is the first and best Sort of early Beans at present known; these are brought from a Settlement of the Portuguese on the Coast of Africa, just without the Streights of Gibraltar. 1846J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) II. 425 Sow.—Melons, cucumbers, peas, beans, the broad sorts, or the mazagans, if wanted early. |