Bean

Word BEAN
Character 4
Hyphenation bean
Pronunciations /biːn/

Definitions and meanings of "Bean"

What do we mean by bean?

Any of various twining herbs of the genus Phaseolus in the pea family, native to the Americas, having leaves with three leaflets and variously colored flowers, and widely cultivated for their edible pods and seeds. noun

A seed or pod of any of these plants. noun

Any of several related plants or their seeds or pods, such as the adzuki bean, broad bean, or soybean. noun

Any of various other plants or their seeds or fruits, especially those suggestive of beans such as the coffee bean or vanilla bean. noun

A person's head. noun

A small amount. noun

A fellow; a chap. noun

To hit (another) on the head with a thrown object, especially a pitched baseball. transitive verb

(full of beans) Energetic; frisky. idiom

(full of beans) Badly mistaken. idiom

(spill the beans) To disclose a secret. idiom

See bein.

The seed of the bean-tree or Moreton Hay chestnut, Castanospermum australe, which, though poisonous when green, is rendered harmless by cooking and forms part of the diet of the aborigines. noun

Originally and properly, a smooth kidney-shaped seed, flattened at the sides, borne in long pods by a leguminous plant, Vicia Faba; now extended to include the seed of the allied genus Phaseolus, and, with a specific epithet, of other genera. noun

The plant producing beans. noun

A small oval or roundish seed, berry, nut, or lump: as, a coffee-bean. noun

Plural In coal-mining, small coals; specifically, coals which will pass through a screen with half-inch meshes. noun

Plural Money. noun

A name given to the seed of certain leguminous herbs, chiefly of the genera Faba, Phaseolus, and Dolichos; also, to the herbs. noun

A reusable software component written in Java.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Bean

The word "bean" in example sentences

When the word bean is used in European texts prior to 1492, it is almost always the fava. ❋ Laurie Constantino (2009)

When you get condensation on your coffee and it starts extracting, all the good stuff starts coming out, and before too long, all that's left inside the bean is the bitter parts. ❋ Unknown (2009)

So they did take a helicopter up, and apparently they shot what they call a bean bag full of food over to them while they're hanging on the side of the cliff to get them through the night. ❋ Unknown (2004)

To confuse things further, this "bean" is actually scientifically more identified with the PEA Family, and even gives its name to the Pea Family: Fabacae, after this "bean"! ❋ Unknown (2002)

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