Definition of "fava"

Favism, a hemolytic anemia that follows the eating of fava or broadbeans, provides a textbook example of a genotype X environment interaction.

1976, I. I. Gottesman, J. Shields, Rejoinder: Toward optimal arousal and away from original din, Schizophrenia Buletin, 2: 447-453, quoted in 2004, Jay Joseph, The Gene Illusion, page 269

When spring arrives the fava arrives and everyone in the Mediterranean can dream up a way of cooking it.

2001, Clifford A. Wright, Mediterranean Vegetables, page 153

Add the favas and cook for 1 minute.

2007, Cat Cora et al., Cooking from the Hip‎, page 197

In cool temperate zones favas are planted early in the growing season, several weeks before the last frost, and grown as a summer annual, much like other vegetable crops of the Fabaceae.

2012, John Navazio, The Organic Seed Grower: A Farmer's Guide to Vegetable Seed Production, page 268