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phaseolus

noun

phaseolus is a noun meaning “any of several domesticated beans, of the genus Phaseolus, native to the Americas” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-H-A-S-E-O-L-U-S, and it appears about once in every 17 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of phaseolus is phaseoli.

What does phaseolus mean?

noun

  1. 1

    any of several domesticated beans, of the genus Phaseolus, native to the Americas

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of phaseolus

  • phaseoli plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is phaseolus?

Phaseolus appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 125,655th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does phaseolus come from?

Borrowed from Latin phaseolus.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).