The word "bean" and its Germanic cognates (e.g., Bohne) have existed in common use in West Germanic languages since before the 12th century,[REF] referring to broad beans and other pod-borne seeds.
Seeds called "beans" are often included among the crops called "pulses" (legumes),[REF] although a narrower prescribed sense of "pulses" reserves the word for leguminous crops harvested for their dry grain.