Or did both come from something else? Maybe “kid knee” (small and bent) or, more realistically, it’s something borrowed from another language like Latin or French.
Or did both come from something else? Maybe “kid knee” (small and bent) or, more realistically, it’s something borrowed from another language like Latin or French.
To save y’all a click, the organ came first, sometime in the 14th century, as a mix of the words for womb and egg. It wasn’t until the 16th century that we see the first recorded use of kidney bean, so the name of the bean references the shape of the organ.
That’s a pretty solid answer from one perspective. However that still leaves me wondering what the answer would be from an evolutionary perspective. Did early sea creatures already have kidneys?
Looks like kidneys in vertebrates have been around for close to 400 million years, while legumes only 60 million
Kidney beans are thought to have originated about 8000 years ago, so the organ is definitely older.
Wow! By several orders of magnitude too. I knew plants came later, but this is a pretty extreme example.
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