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cluster bean

NOUN
  1. drought-tolerant herb grown for forage and for its seed which yield a gum used as a thickening agent or sizing material

How To Use cluster bean In A Sentence

  • Others, like gum guar (obtained from the cluster bean), or locust bean gum (from the locust bean), come from seedpods.
  • In Haryana and Gujarat, if the rains come in the next two weeks, we would stress on the sowing of millet, moong beans and then cluster beans.
  • The guar, or cluster bean, provides a gum that has 8 times the thickening power of cornstarch.
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