bean
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- noun
- /biːn/
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- Healthy, gives that nice crunch, little green beans, little parsley.
- rice and beans
- green beans
- coffee beans
I 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 plant with seeds in pods, like beans or peas, that people eat
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A flat pale green or white bean that people cook and eat
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A dry seed like a pea or bean 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 dried seed from the cacao tree used to make chocolate
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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 brown bean with spots often dried and used in Mexican cooking
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A small green bean from Asia that people cook or grow into sprouts
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A small round seed used in Asian cooking, often dried or soaked
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A young green bean eaten before it dries or hardens
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A yellow bean with edible pods eaten as a vegetable
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A long thin green vegetable that people eat cooked or raw
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A plant that produces beans you can eat
A large flat edible seed eaten as a vegetable and often called a fava bean
A large flat bean that people cook and eat, also called fava
A garden plant grown for its large flat beans that people or animals eat
A tall plant grown for large flat seeds eaten by people and fed to animals
A type of broad bean grown to feed animals
A seed from the broad bean plant used as food for people and animals
A plant that grows pods with large flat beans people eat
A plant with seeds used to make food, oil, and animal feed
A climbing or bushy vegetable that produces edible beans
A plant that grows beans people cook and eat
A seed from plants like peas or lentils that you can eat
A small part of a plant that you can eat and use in cooking
A small white seed that is dried and cooked to eat
A long green bean with very long pods used as a vegetable
A long thin vegetable with yellow pods that you eat
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 bean plant grown for the seeds that people eat, picked when ripe but not dry
A plant from Europe that produces large flat seeds eaten by people and fed to animals
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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2.0
A large red seed shaped like a kidney that people cook and eat or the plant that grows it
- US
A climbing plant with purple flowers and long hairy pods used to improve soil and feed animals
- Archaic
A woody climbing plant with purple flowers and hairy pods that farmers grow to feed animals and improve soil
A shrub with leaves in three parts, yellow flowers, and curving seed pods that smells bad when crushed
- Specialized
A group of small trees, shrubs, and herbs that grow in hot, dry, salty places and are sometimes poisonous
A bush that grows small flat beans you can eat, often served as a vegetable
- UK
A dark brown seed from a West African plant that is poisonous and used in traditional medicine and rituals
A tropical African climbing plant that makes beans used in medicine and once used as a poison
An evergreen tree that grows in Mediterranean countries and makes sweet pods eaten like chocolate
A large tropical shrub with big hand-shaped leaves and spiny seed pods that give seeds used to make castor oil
- US
A shrub or small tree with divided leaves, blue flower spikes and red seeds, some poisonous to farm animals
A tropical bean plant with red flowers that grows black beans with white spots you can eat
- Indian
A climbing plant with purple flowers and dark red pods that have edible seeds and are used as a vegetable
A small reddish-brown bean used in Chinese and Japanese cooking, often in sweet dishes
A small red-brown bean from East Asia often used in Japanese and Chinese sweets and flour
- Specialized
A long pod with sweet pulp and small beans people and animals eat, often used like chocolate
A plant from Europe that produces large flat seeds eaten by people and fed to 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.