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[T]here would be no entry for French beans, because in English we call them
haricots verts. The distinction (at least here in California) is that "green beans" is often used to refer to Blue Lake Beans, also called string beans; they are generally larger and more succulent (unless overgrown). Where haricots verts are the more expensive, tender skinny French green bush beans.
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is sentient
| source : web1913 |
Sentient \Sen"ti*ent\, a. [L. sentiens, -entis, p. pr. of
sentire to discern or perceive by the senses. See {Sense}.]
Having a faculty, or faculties, of sensation and perception.
Specif. (Physiol.), especially sensitive; as, the sentient
extremities of nerves, which terminate in the various organs
or tissues.
| source : web1913 |
Sentient \Sen"ti*ent\, n.
One who has the faculty of perception; a sentient being.
| source : wn |
sentient
adj 1: endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness; "the
living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's
stage"- T.E.Lawrence [syn: {animate}] [ant: {insentient}]
2: consciously perceiving; "sentient of the intolerable load";
"a boy so sentient of his surroundings"- W.A.White