n. 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.n. The plant producing beans.n. A small oval or roundish seed, berry, nut, or lump: as, a coffee-bean.n. plural In coal-mining, small coals; specifically, coals which will pass through a screen with half-inch meshes.n. plural Money.See bein.n. 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.