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# haricot

«haricot» in Mova's school dictionary: **a small white bean, the kind used to make baked beans** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a haricot, haricots); haricot bean

### meaning for a pupil

1) A haricot (haricot bean) is a small white bean, the kind used to make baked beans. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/haricot/#m1)

2) (French) «Haricot» is the French word for bean, as in «haricots verts» (green beans). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/haricot/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life in the UK, Ireland and Australia, tinned baked beans are haricot beans in tomato sauce; in the US they are called navy beans. In science and food lessons, beans are seeds and a good source of protein and fibre. In cooking, French recipes use «haricots verts» for thin green beans. Say «HA-ri-koh»: the t is silent.

### examples

- Baked beans are made from haricot beans. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/haricot/#x1)
- Soak the haricot beans in water overnight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/haricot/#x2)
- Haricot beans are full of protein. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/haricot/#x3)
- In America, haricot beans are called navy beans. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/haricot/#x4)
- Mum added haricots to the stew. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/haricot/#x5)
- (French) «Haricots verts» are thin green beans. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/haricot/#x6)

### note

The «t» is silent, as in French: «HA-ri-koh». Countable: haricots. It is a borrowed French word, used in English mostly as «haricot bean».

### In the corpora

- [Baked beans are usually haricot beans, which first came from the Americas.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «haricot» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/haricot/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.