Bean

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Any of various New World twining herbs of the genus Phaseolus in the pea family, having leaves with three leaflets, variously colored flowers, and edible pods and seeds.
  • n. A seed or pod of any of these plants.
  • n. Any of several related plants or their seeds or pods, such as the adzuki bean, broad bean, or soybean.
  • n. Any of various other plants or their seeds or fruits, especially those suggestive of beans, such as the coffee bean or the vanilla bean.
  • n. Slang A person's head.
  • n. Slang A small amount: I don't know beans about investing.
  • n. Chiefly British A fellow; a chap.
  • v. Slang To hit (another) on the head with a thrown object, especially a pitched baseball.
  • idiom. full of beans Energetic; frisky: The children were too full of beans to sit still.
  • idiom. full of beans Badly mistaken: Don't believe him; he's full of beans.
  • idiom. spill the beans To disclose a secret.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The large edible seed of plants of several genera of Fabaceae.
  • n. The seed pod of plants of several genera of Fabaceae.
  • n. A bean-like seed of some other plants, especially coffee; coffee in the general.
  • n. Stuffing for beanbags and similar items, often made from plastic and resembling a pea or bean in shape.
  • n. The head or brain.
  • n. A guinea coin.
  • n. Money.
  • n. The clitoris.
  • v. To hit deliberately with a projectile, especially in the head.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A name given to the seed of certain leguminous herbs, chiefly of the genera Faba, Phaseolus, and Dolichos; also, to the herbs.
  • n. The popular name of other vegetable seeds or fruits, more or less resembling true beans.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae used for food
  • n. any of various seeds or fruits that are beans or resemble beans
  • n. informal terms for a human head
  • n. any of various leguminous plants grown for their edible seeds and pods
  • v. hit on the head, especially with a pitched baseball
  • Equivalent
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    beaned    beaning    beans   
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    human head    hit   
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