单词 | bean |
释义 | bean (once / 403 pages) 1n 2nv A bean is a seed you can eat. You might love garbanzo beans but detest large, green lima beans. When you order rice and beans at a Mexican restaurant, you get a plate full of deliciously spiced, slightly mashed pinto or black beans. You might plant beans in your garden, vine-like climbing plants that grow pods with beans inside. Coffee and chocolate are both foods that start out as beans. If someone beans you during a softball game, it means they hit you with the ball, usually in the head — also colloquially called a bean. WORD FAMILYbean: beaned, beaner, beaning, beans+/beaner: beaners USAGE EXAMPLESLots of vegetables, which are cheap; lots of grains and beans. The Guardian(Jan 02, 2017) Police used a bean bag gun and stun gun on the animal before catching it. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) Bean lists the center in court papers as her former employer. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1 1n any of various leguminous plants grown for their edible seeds and pods Syn|Hypo|Hyper bean plant bush bean a bean plant whose bushy growth needs no supports pole beana climbing bean plant that will climb a wall or tree or trellis shell bean, shell bean planta bean plant grown primarily for its edible seed rather than its pod Phaseolus vulgaris, common bean, common bean plantthe common annual twining or bushy bean plant grown for its edible seeds or pods Dutch case-knife bean, Phaseolus coccineus, Phaseolus multiflorus, runner bean, scarlet runner, scarlet runner beantropical American bean with red flowers and mottled black beans similar to Phaseolus vulgaris but perennial; a preferred food bean in Great Britain Phaseolus limensis, lima bean, lima bean plantbush or tall-growing bean plant having large flat edible seeds Phaseolus lunatus, butter bean, butter-bean plant, lima bean, sieva beanbush bean plant cultivated especially in southern United States having small flat edible seeds Phaseolus acutifolius latifolius, tepary beantwining plant of southwestern United States and Mexico having roundish white or yellow or brown or black beans English bean, European bean, Vicia faba, broad bean, broad-bean, broad-bean plant, field beanOld World upright plant grown especially for its large flat edible seeds but also as fodder legume, leguminous plant an erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae 2n any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae used for food Syn|Hypo|Hyper edible bean goa bean Old World tropical bean common beanany of numerous beans eaten either fresh or dried soy, soya, soya bean, soybeanthe most highly proteinaceous vegetable known; the fruit of the soybean plant is used in a variety of foods and as fodder (especially as a replacement for animal protein) kidney beanlarge dark red bean; usually dried navy bean, pea bean, white beanwhite-seeded bean; usually dried pinto beanmottled or spotted bean of southwestern United States; usually dried frijoleMexican bean; usually dried black bean, turtle beanblack-seeded bean of South America; usually dried fresh beanbeans eaten before they are ripe as opposed to dried flageolet, haricota French bean variety with light-colored seeds; usually dried field soybeanseeds used as livestock feed legume the seedpod of a leguminous plant (such as peas or beans or lentils) 3n any of various seeds or fruits that are beans or resemble beans 2Hypo|Hyper coumara nut, tonka bean fragrant black nutlike seeds of the tonka bean tree; used in perfumes and medicines and as a substitute for vanilla algarobilla, algarroba, algarrobillamesquite pod used in tanning and dyeing calabar bean, ordeal beandark brown highly poisonous seed of the calabar-bean vine; source of physostigmine and used in native witchcraft divi-divitwisted seed pods of the divi-divi tree; source of tannin algarroba, algarroba bean, carob, carob bean, locust bean, locust podlong pod containing small beans and sweetish edible pulp; used as animal feed and source of a chocolate substitute soy, soya bean, soybeana source of oil; used for forage and soil improvement and as food broad bean, fava bean, horsebeanseed of the broad-bean plant seed a small hard fruit 1n informal terms for a human head Syn|Hyper attic, bonce, dome, noggin, noodle human head the head of a human being 2v hit on the head, especially with a pitched baseball Hyper hit deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument |
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