bean
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- noun
- /biːn/
- Healthy, gives that nice crunch, little green beans, little parsley.
- rice and beans
- green beans
- coffee beans
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Watch on YouTubeI think we're going to have like beans and stuff.
- I think we're going to have like beans and stuff.
- Please, can I get a Heinz beans and cheese Toasty?
- It's like there's the crunch, then I taste bean paste and spice.
- It was like raw green beans and it was maggots.
Examples
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For dinner, I prepared a delicious chili made with black beans and spices.
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These are all canned beans.
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I think we're going to have like beans and stuff.
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That, and one plate of beans: $10 a day.
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I did have breakfast, which was like beans and eggs toast.
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I had a chicken bowl with rice, beans and potatoes.
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I put water on to boil and got the beans out of the freezer.
Fiction book (1990) -
The state occupied first place in coffee, cotton, rice, and beans, and second place in maize.
Academic text (1992) -
Hank was kind and human, and our hero cold and hungry, and the beans smelled good and the coffee was steaming hot.
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We'll certainly have brussels sprouts and we'll have some more beans, and we'll have tomatoes, and lettuce.
Synonyms
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A plant grown for its beans used to make food, animal feed, and oil
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A flat pale green or white bean that people cook and eat
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A plant with seeds in pods, like beans or peas, that people eat
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A large flat seed from the broad bean plant that people cook and eat
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A brown bean with spots often dried and used in Mexican cooking
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A dried seed from the cacao tree used to make chocolate
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A plant with seeds used to make food, oil, and animal feed
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2.0
A large red seed shaped like a kidney that people cook and eat or the plant that grows it
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A small green bean from Asia that people cook or grow into sprouts
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A long thin green vegetable that people eat cooked or raw
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A young green bean eaten before it dries or hardens
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A dry seed like a pea or bean that people eat
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A yellow bean with edible pods eaten as a vegetable
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A plant that produces beans you can eat
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A small white seed that is dried and cooked to eat
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A tall plant grown for large flat seeds eaten by people and fed to animals
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A small part of a plant that you can eat and use in cooking
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A bean plant grown for the seeds that people eat, picked when ripe but not dry
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A plant that grows beans people cook and eat
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A long thin vegetable with yellow pods that you eat
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A large flat edible seed eaten as a vegetable and often called a fava bean
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A plant from Europe that produces large flat seeds eaten by people and fed to animals
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A long green bean with very long pods used as a vegetable
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A garden plant grown for its large flat beans that people or animals eat
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A plant that grows pods with large flat beans people eat
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A seed from plants like peas or lentils that you can eat
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A small round seed used in Asian cooking, often dried or soaked
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A seed from the broad bean plant used as food for people and animals
A large flat bean that people cook and eat, also called fava
A type of broad bean grown to feed animals
A climbing or bushy vegetable that produces edible beans
A small flat green bean or the plant that grows it eaten as food
A plant that farmers grow for its edible bean seeds rather than its pod
A long pod with sweet pulp and small beans people and animals eat, often used like chocolate
Compounds
- Offensive
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A person who pays too much attention to small money details and misses the big picture
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A large red seed shaped like a kidney that people cook and eat or the plant that grows it
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A small red-brown bean from East Asia often used in Japanese and Chinese sweets and flour
- US
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An edible root that looks like a nut and was an important food for some Native American people
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A small insect that eats the leaves of bean plants and often damages bean crops
- Specialized
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A fragrant black seed from a South American tree that gives perfumes and food a warm, sweet smell
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A small reddish-brown bean used in Chinese and Japanese cooking, often in sweet dishes
- Indian
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A tropical climbing plant with edible pods that have four raised edges and thick edible roots
- UK
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A dark brown seed from a West African plant that is poisonous and used in traditional medicine and rituals
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A large tropical shrub with big hand-shaped leaves and spiny seed pods that give seeds used to make castor oil
- Specialized
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A bushy tropical plant grown for animal feed with long pods of white seeds
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4.2
A plant from Europe that produces large flat seeds eaten by people and fed to animals
- Specialized
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9.8
A dry-land shrub or small tree with spiral seed pods from the US Southwest and Mexico
- US
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8.5
A climbing plant from the southwestern United States and Mexico that makes small edible beans
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A long pod from the carob tree with sweet pulp used like chocolate and as animal feed
- Specialized
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A shrub or small tree with blue flowers and red seeds that are poisonous to people and animals
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Etymology
Bean comes from an old Germanic word that meant the same small seed and plant, and you can still see it in beanstalk; the image of a little seed growing into a plant helps explain why bean today means the edible seed or the plant that makes it.