bean

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/ˈbi(ː)n/

noun 5name 2verb 1

Collocations

(noun.) vegetable

ADJ

black-eyed, broad, butter, chilli, French, green, haricot, kidney, runner, soya, string | canned, dried, refried

baked

For lunch, she heated up a can of baked beans and served them with grilled sausages.

VERB + BEAN

eat, have | plant

grow

My grandfather grows beans in his vegetable garden every summer.

cook | drain, strain

soak

Before cooking dried beans, you should soak them in water for several hours.

BEAN + NOUN

curd | sprout

(noun.) seed of other plants

ADJ

cocoa, coffee

VERB + BEAN

roast | grind

Definitions

noun

Any plant of several genera of the taxonomic family Fabaceae that produces large edible seeds or edible seedpods.

2004, T. N. Shivenanda, B. R. V. Iyengar, Phosphorus Management in French Bean (Phaseolus Vulgaris L.), Ramdane Dris, S. Mohan Jain (editors), Production Practices and Quality Assessment of Food Crops, Volume 2: Plant Mineral Nutrition and Pesticide Management, page 79, Beans are a large group of leguminous vegetables that serve as a main source of proteins in human diet. This group comprises several species and some of them are Adzuki bean (Vigna angularis); Broad bean (Vicia faba); Cluster bean (Cyamposis tetragonoloba); French bean (Phaseolus vulgaris); […] .

The large edible seed of such a plant (for example, a broad bean, navy bean, or garbanzo bean).

The edible seedpod of such a plant.

Green beans, also called French beans, can be pickled.

The bean-like seed of certain other plants, such as a vanilla bean or (especially) a coffee bean.

An object resembling a pea or bean in shape, often made from plastic or styrofoam and used in large numbers as packing material or as stuffing for beanbags and similar items.

verb

To hit with a projectile, especially a deliberately aimed blow to the head.

The pitcher beaned the batter, rather than letting him hit another home run.

Though I shall have to exercise an iron self-restraint to keep me from beaning that pie-faced little hornswoggler Mrs Bertram Wooster, nee Wickham, with the shaker. [...] dudgeon might easily lead her to reach for the ginger ale bottle and bean me with it.

name

A surname.

A village and civil parish in Dartford borough, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ5872).

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Synonyms

noun — informal terms for a human head

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Idioms & Phrases

bean counter

A person who is excessively interested in controlling or reducing expenses, increasing profits, or in quantitative details in general.

As any good bean counter will tell you, it costs money to treat people at a hospital.

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Green beans, also called French beans, can be pickled.

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Now, there was a perfectly sound forecast for you. Certainly a case of using the old bean. The surmise was perfectly logical.

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The pitcher beaned the batter, rather than letting him hit another home run.

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Though I shall have to exercise an iron self-restraint to keep me from beaning that pie-faced little hornswoggler Mrs Bertram Wooster, nee Wickham, with the shaker. [...] dudgeon might easily lead he

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I don't care a bean.

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